Re: [PATCH] Fix build failure with GCC 4.3

Lorenzo Bettini <[email protected]> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:05:06 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.gengetopt.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Debarshi Ray wrote:
>> I guess this will break backward compatibility, won't it?
> 
> Even GCC 2.96 supports the modern C++ style headers:
> 
> debray@tista[205] cat hello.cpp
> #include <iostream>
> 
> using namespace std;
> 
> int main (void)
> {
>   cout << "Hello world" << endl;
>   return 0;
> }
> debray@tista[206] g++ --version
> 2.96
> debray@tista[207] g++ hello.cpp
> debray@tista[208] ./a.out
> Hello world
> debray@tista[209]
> 
> Considering we are going to have 4.3 sometime soon, I do not think we
> should bother too much about losing backwards compatibility. :-)

ooops... shame on me! :-)
I thought that only the C++ headers (like iostream) were backward
compatible and not the C headers!

then I'll surely have to switch to the new headers

thanks
	Lorenzo

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