Re: [PATCH] C++11 keyword fallback

[Paul Eggert]

On 02/04/13 00:51, Miles Bader wrote:
> I expect these days pretty much every significant compiler
> supports const anyway,

I think that was always true for C++, which is why the
issue never came up for 'const' and C++.  There were
a few old C programs that used 'const' as identifiers,
but they had to get changed for C89 anyway.  No old
.h files happened to use 'const' as an identifier, so
we lucked out.

In contrast, '#define final /**/' is likely to cause problems,
e.g., on Fedora 17, /usr/include/gcrypt-module.h does this:

extern "C" {

...

typedef struct gcry_md_spec
{
  ...
  gcry_md_final_t final;
  ...
} gcry_md_spec_t;

...

}