Re: C++ interface build on FreeBSD 4.2 broken?

Tom Lane writes:

> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> >> ../../../src/include/c.h:997: conflicting types for `int sys_nerr'
> >> /usr/include/stdio.h:224: previous declaration as `const int sys_nerr'
>
> > C++ apparently doesn't allow this, but C does. So you have to put #ifndef
> > __cplusplus at the appropriate place in c.h.
>
> Er, what will you ifdef exactly,

+ #ifdef __cplusplus
#ifdef HAVE_SYS_NERR
extern int sys_nerr;
#endif
+ #endif

> and what are the odds that it will fail on some other platform?

I don't see how it would fail. At least it won't add more possible
failure cases.

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