Overloading vs. string functions, etc.

[Mark Mitchell]

>>>>> "Andreas" == Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> writes:

    Andreas> So, what can glibc do and what should glibc not do under
    Andreas> C++ compilation (and please explain why, I'd like to

I'm excited that you're willing to help with this.

How about, on GNU/Linux, just making our lives easy? :-)

Make <string.h> contain:

  #ifdef __cplusplus
  namespace std {
  #endif

  ...

  #ifdef __cplusplus
  }
  #endif

Also, add overloads for the variants of these functions that are not
present in C?  And make the functions inlines that call
`__builtin_foo' under C++?

In other words, how about just making the C headers be valid C++
headers, too?  This is Sun's approach, and it makes life much simpler
for the rest of the C++ library.

Does this make sense?

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