Using C++ in GCC is OK

[Eric Botcazou]

> I'm not enthusiastic about that either.

FWIW neither am I.

> Nor will grow the memory footprint, at least of the important data
> structures, or increase maintanance costs by making the code less readable,
> etc.

It's clear that we don't want blind conversions to fancy C++ style, but Mark 
was clear about that.  Maintainers should be allowed to reject conversions 
that buy too little or nothing.

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Eric Botcazou