Re: C++ Headers

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: mscott@sacadia.com, Hackers List <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2001-05-20T00:34:22Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> The only mention I see of this is in c.h:
	
> 	#ifndef __cplusplus
> 	#ifndef bool
> 	typedef char bool;
	
> 	#endif   /* ndef bool */
> 	#endif   /* not C++ */

> If you need more cplusplus stuff, lets figure it out and add it.

Actually, that portion of c.h is a time bomb that is likely to blow up
in the face of some poor C++ user.  There's no guarantee that a C++
compiler's built-in bool type will be compatible with "char", is there?
If it happened to be, say, same size as "int", then a C++ module
would interpret lots of things differently from a C module.

			regards, tom lane