Re: GMP C/C++ namespace conflict

[Kevin Ryde]

Hans Aberg <address@hidden> writes:
>
> At 12:24 +0200 2001/04/30, Hans Aberg wrote:
> >If you include the C header <stddef.h>, which then under C++ should
> >include <cstddef>, before the above write
> >
> >#ifdef __cplusplus
> >#include <cstddef>
> >#else
> >#include <stddef.h>
> >#endif

Yep, thanks, that would be fine.  But is there a c++ standards version
that can be checked in the preprocessor to see whether the <cstddef>
ought to work?

> Oops. If one is doing it, size_t will be named std::size_t. So one might add
> #ifdef __cplusplus
> #define size_t std::size_t
> #endif

Really?  Isn't it the purpose of <cstddef> to provide a plain size_t
(or do I misunderstand badly)?