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Re: Make copyObject work in C++

Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl>

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From: Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Date: 2025-12-08T15:31:30Z
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On Mon, 8 Dec 2025 at 15:51, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> writes:
> > AFAICT, both gcc and clang support typeof in C++ mode as well.  So this
> > kind of renaming could be confusing.
>
> Hm, if that's true then we should not have to do anything ...
> so why is Jelte reporting a problem?

Seems it's related to -std=c++17 vs -std=gnu++17. I was compiling my
code with the former, which throws the error in question[1]. Compiling
with the latter works fine[2].

So I guess it depends what we want to require from C++ extensions.
Should we require them to compile with gnu extensions? My opinion on
that would be no.

[1]: https://godbolt.org/z/fz567hs1r
[2]: https://godbolt.org/z/cq1se55bn