Re: Mostly Harmless: Welcoming our C++ friends

Kurt Harriman <harriman@acm.org> writes:
> However, probably an easier alternative would be to have
> just one buildfarm machine do a nightly build configured
> with the --enable-cplusplus option.

There is no such option, and won't be.

> This would build one file - main.c - as C++ (necessary
> because on some platforms the main() function needs to be
> C++ to ensure the C++ runtime library is initialized).

Useless, since main.c doesn't include any large number of headers,
and in particular there is no reason for it to include the headers
that are critical to function libraries.
        regards, tom lane