http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=51749
--- Comment #9 from Jonathan Wakely <redi at gcc dot gnu.org> 2012-01-17 11:37:34 UTC --- (In reply to comment #7) > If not, it sounds like something that can fixed just by wrapping the #include > in a namespace std block. That could never work. 1) namespace are ignored for extern "C" functions 2) if you also surrounded them in extern "C++" that would cause your program to see a declaration of extern "C++" std::puts(const char*), which would not be found in libc.so because that contains a definition for extern "C" puts. 3) as Paolo said, it's legal anyway
