Re: [PATCH] libxc, libxenstore: make the headers C++-friendly

[Razvan Cojocaru <rzvncj@gmail.com>]

>> However, most well-behaved C libraries do that for all their headers.
>
> xen/include/public is is not a library, it's the C API (and ABI) of the
> hypervisor.  By all means make libxc/libxg/libxl C++-friendly if you
> like, but please leave the hypervisor interface alone.

I understand your position, however I should point out that, if done 
properly, making even all the headers in Xen C++-friendly would have no 
impact whatsoever on anything in Xen.

If you compile them with a C compiler (i.e. gcc instead of g++), the 
'extern "C"' statements simply don't exist (because then __cplusplus is 
not #defined). As for the rest, all that's required is to not use C++ 
keywords as variable names, and to be careful to define something before 
typedef-ing it. That's absolutely all there is to it.

Thank you for your time and comments,
Razvan Cojocaru