Re: C99 _Complex and C++ complex<> interoperability.

[Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at cs dot tamu dot edu>]

Howard Hinnant <hhinnant@apple.com> writes:

| On Feb 22, 2007, at 1:25 PM, Smith-Rowland, Edward M wrote:
| 
| > My questions are:
| >  Is this behavior standard or is this a gcc extension?
| >  If this is a gcc extension where is it documented?
| >
| > Also, if this behavior is nonstandard is anyone thinking about
| > standardizing it?
| > Finally, the circle would be complete if we could assign from
| > std::complex to _Complex.
| > Any ideas?  There is a private functions that return _Complex from
| > std::complex.
| 
| Fwiw here are some relevant links:
| 
| http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/lwg-active.html#387
| 
| The above link is a C++ committee library working group defect report
| on this subject.  It is in an open state meaning that no decision has
| been made.

I'm flagabasted by the astonding efficiency of LWG for an issue

   http://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG21/docs/papers/2002/n1388.pdf

that was discussed in more than LWG committee during the Santa Cruz
meeting (October 22-25, 2002),  resolution adopted in "Review" state
as reported by the Santa Cruz post mailing.

-- Gaby