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Re: c++ language question


> Does this actually buy us much?  (I.e., were there conforming programs that didn't work before, but will work now?)
> 

Well.. it'll at least stop programs like:

#include <stdlib.h>
int main (void)
{
  int wchar_t = 1;
}

from working.

> I'm afraid that will simply screw up people who have typedef's for wchar_t in their header > files, without helping them much.  Jason?

It depends on what the policy is for conformance really.  Ultimately we
need to make the compiler conform to the standard, but there's room for
flexibility.

-eric

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