/usr/include/bits/in.h is invalid C++

[Ulrich Drepper]

Horst von Brand <vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl> writes:

> How so? It might be a C header, but if the structure is used from C++, it
> is illegal. Also, how does the compiler distinguish between a.h which so
> happens is supposed to be C and the _identical_ file b.c which is C++?

By having seen extern "C".

> BTW, my egcs is next-to-last (19990103 can't be bootstrapped with
> glibc-2.0.10[89]), so I doubt this is the explanation.

Well, then talk to Jason Merrill.  I was under the impression
implemented this meanwhile.

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