Hi Paolo,
>> exactly: just g++ -D__cplusplus=1 or something.
>
> Irrespective of what the Standard strictly says, I think the latter would
> only make sense if it would allow the user to return, consistently, to the
> pre-4.7 behavior, for compatibility reasons or something. Is it the case? Is
> the above enough for that? Or some of the changes which went in are effective
> anyway even if __cplusplus is reverted by hand to 1? I think this is the
> question deciding what we really want to do.
I'm pretty sure this is the case for Solaris. The other changes we've
made to support __cplusplus 199711L were no-ops without the last one to
change __cplusplus from 1 to the C++ 98 value. So, redefining
__cplusplus to 1 should return us back to the old status.
Rainer
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Rainer Orth, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University
