Re: Push GENERIC farther into C/C++ front ends.

[Geoffrey Keating <geoffk at geoffk dot org>]

Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com> writes:

> Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> writes:
> 
> >> struct real_value has a field named `class'.  That's easily fixed, but
> >> given the above I'm wondering whether it will be acceptable...?
> >
> > If I recall correctly, my concern was that it might be hard to
> > maintain the invariant that the code compile as C++.  Therefore, I
> > think that what I'd want is to make it a goal that stuff compile as
> > C++, but not try to make people check that when making changes.
> 
> #pragma poison could be used to enforce no C++ keywords, at least.

I like that idea.

It might be useful in the long run to have a new warning flag (for the
C compiler, probably) to warn about constructs that aren't in the common
subset of C and C++.  I am sure there are people who would use it.