* Kevin Kofler via devel:

> Stephan Bergmann wrote:
>> Note that wrapping the header include in an extern declaration violates
>> C++ standard requirements.  ("A translation unit shall include a header
>> only outside of any declaration or definition", [using.headers]/3)
>
> Yet, it is absolutely necessary for many C library headers that do not 
> support C++ out of the box.
>
> I assume it was even the case for that particular GLib header at some point, 
> or we would not have so many projects #including it in an extern "C" block.

Or system headers included by glib headers.  I assume that glib has been
doing that properly for a long time, but it doesn't wrap system header
includes in this way.

Thanks,
Florian
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