Re: [PATCH] Amend AC_CHECK_HEADER_STDBOOL for C++11 and modern dialects

[David Seifert]

On Do, 2016-06-02 at 15:01 -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 06/02/2016 02:26 PM, David Seifert wrote:
> > 
> > We could relax the whole thing a bit, and maybe just make a plain
> > __cplusplus check, without a version number. This keeps the C side
> > as
> > it always has been, but allows C++'s proper literals to kick in.
> > 
> > In addition, _Bool is also a major obstacle, as it does not exist
> > in
> > C++ (and does so only for GCC due to some GNUisms in libstdc++ with
> > -std=c++98). Would you consider moving away from _Bool and
> > replacing
> > all uses of it with bool? After all, <stdbool.h> by itself only
> > mandates the existence of bool/true/false.
> Sure, that all sounds fine (in C++ only of course).
Dear Paul,
any updates on merging the patch I sent in?

David