C++ PATCH: PR 9924

[Roger Sayle]

On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Benjamin Kosnik wrote:
> >Its not that system headers are C++
> >aware (with extern "C", and namespaces, and attributes, and empty
> >throw expection lists, etc...), instead its just g++ automatically
> >assumes functions prototyped in /usr/include have C linkage.
>
> You might want to take a look at the glibc 2.3 headers, since Jason
> apparently cannot convince you otherwise. I suspect you'll be very
> surprised.

<humor>
My god, you're right!  We can completely remove nothrow_libfn_p and
IMPLICIT_EXTERN_C from the g++ front-end.  I'll start on a patch
straight away.  All this time I've been fixing bugs in code we don't
even need.  I remember filing my glibc copyright assignments with the
FSF, but I never even thought to take a look.  Who knew?

My apologies for ever believing that system headers aren't C++ aware.
</humor>

Roger
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