Re: How to optionally test for a C++ compiler?

[Ossama Othman]

Hi Alexandre,

On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 11:10:40AM -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Feb 12, 2000, Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > I think it's bad idea to check for bool and/or if __cplusplus is
> > defined since some C compilers may actually accept them.
> 
> I can believe `bool' could be supported by C compilers, but defining
> __cplusplus to non-zero would be cheating too much.  Do you have any
> example of such a cheating compiler?

Not really.  I was making a pretty big assumption about the potential
existence of a such a beast. :-)

-Ossama
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