Re: C++ fix and test

[Akim Demaille]

| On Dec 19, 2000, Pavel Roskin <address@hidden> wrote:
| > Hello, Akim!
| 
| >> Unless you know for sure a simple include will break things, I'd
| >> rather go for the simple solution, and make it complex later if
| >> needed.
| 
| I do know there's a big risk of breaking things, and I'd rather not
| take it.  And then, it's just a `for' testing various alternatives of
| setting the $ac_cplusplus_exit_decl variable, that would be part of
| aclang.m4 by default.  Some alternatives to test:
| 
| 1)
| #include <stdlib.h>
| 
| 2)
| extern "C" void exit (int);
| 
| 3)
| extern "C" void exit (int) throw();
| 
| 4)
| namespace std { extern "C" void exit (int); } using std::exit;
| 
| 5)
| namespace std { extern "C" void exit (int) throw(); } using std::exit;
| 
| We should attempt to compile all of them with and without #including
| <stdlib.h>, and always calling exit(0), so that we detect any problems
| with duplicate inclusion of stdlib.h and potential incompatibilities
| between the declaration in  #including <stdlib.h> and the one we would
| provide.

This is crazy!  I'm depressed.


Why do you want to try without stdlib.h?