On Fri 15 Jul 2016 12:52, Chris Vine <ch...@cvine.freeserve.co.uk> writes:
> On Thu, 14 Jul 2016 17:41:45 +0200 > Daniel Llorens <daniel.llor...@bluewin.ch> wrote: > [snip] >> I think we'd want C89/C90 users to still be able to #include >> <libguile.h>. Dunno. > > libguile.h can also at present be included in C++89/03/11/14 code by > design - all the necessary "extern C" stuff is there. I would hope > that would continue, but some C99 things, such as variable length > arrays, designated initializers, the _Complex type, the restrict > qualifier and compound literals (except in C++11/14) are not available. > > There is no problem with using these in libguile implementation > (*.c) code, but including them in headers will generally stop the > headers being usable in C++ code. Having said that, g++ happens to > accept some of these in C++ code as an extension. Good points, all. Thanks for this list Chris. I don't think we need anything in your list at present. I would like stdint.h though :) Andy
