[diff.mods.to.headers] Explain what happened to meaningless C headers #1051
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zygoloid
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Nov 16, 2016
| the \Cpp standard library provides the C headers enumerated | ||
| in~\ref{depr.c.headers}, but their use is deprecated in \Cpp. | ||
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You don't need a note here, this whole clause is non-normative.
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Ah, good point, removed.
| from the \Cpp standard library. | ||
| The headers \tcode{<ciso646>}, \tcode{<cstdalign>}~(\ref{cstdalign.syn}), | ||
| and \tcode{<cstdbool>}~(\ref{cstdbool.syn}) are meaningless in \Cpp. Use of | ||
| the \Cpp headers \tcode{<ccomplex>}, \tcode{<cstdalign>}, \tcode{<cstdbool>}, |
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Hmm, I wonder why <ciso646> is not deprecated... maybe we should file an issue for this?
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I just emailed lwgchair and opened an issue :-)
In fact, I wonder if we cannot remove the deprecated C++ headers in C++2a and move the synopses into Annex D.
| \tcode{<stdnoreturn.h>}\indextext{\idxhdr{stdnoreturn.h}}, | ||
| and \tcode{<threads.h>}\indextext{\idxhdr{threads.h}}, | ||
| nor are the C headers themselves part of \Cpp. | ||
| The headers \tcode{<ccomplex>}\indextext{\idxhdr{ccomplex}}~(\ref{ccomplex.syn}) |
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New paragraph here (between "headers in C and not in C++" and "headers in C++ that are not the same as the corresponding C header").
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Done, and also below.
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A section called "modifications to headers" should not fail to explain what happened to all the other C headers.
Part of Issue #1006.