[PATCH 00/13] Installed-header hygiene (BZ#20366)

Carlos O'Donell carlos@redhat.com
Wed Sep 21 17:34:00 GMT 2016


On 08/29/2016 09:16 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> Last release cycle I made some noises about cleaning up the installed
> headers---specifically, I think they should all be tested to compile
> as both C and C++, in a variety of modes, without having included
> any other headers first.  There's not a lot of bugs in this area,
> but there's enough to get 13 patches out of them :)  Mainly because
> I broke it up very fine for review.  It would probably be best to
> squash it down to just one patch for landing.

I agree with the principles you are applying here. It also helps reduce
potential circular header dependencies and improves readability for
those more familiar with the common standard defined types.

-- 
Cheers,
Carlos.



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