Overloading vs. string functions, etc.

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> writes:

| > Make <string.h> contain:
| > 
| >   #ifdef __cplusplus
| >   namespace std {
| >   #endif
| 
| But this would break with GCC 2.95, wouldn't it?  So it should be
| (__GNUC_PREREQ just check that we use GCC with the supplied version):
| 
| #if defined __cplusplus && __GNUC_PREREQ (3,0)
| namespace std {
| #endif
| 
| ...
| 
| #if defined __cplusplus && __GNUC_PREREQ (3,0)
| }
| #endif

That is definitely OK since in gcc-2.95.x we didn't even attempt to
address the issue of conformant library.

| > 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++?
| 
| I'm not sure what you really mean here.

C++ changes the signature of some C functions (especially those
operating on strings) and adds overloads.  I'll send a complete list
shortly. 

| > Does this make sense?
| 
| Not really, I'm not familiar enough with C++ library design.

That is not big deal.  Some of the comments in docs/html/17_intro
might be worth reading, but feel free to ask any question.

Thanks for your patience and help.

-- Gaby
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