Re: C++ keywords in headers (was Re: [GENERAL] #include <funcapi.h>)

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of lun dic 27 13:54:56 -0300 2010:
>> [ lightbulb ] ... although we could improve that quite a bit if we
>> processed each .h file separately instead of insisting on smashing
>> everything into one compilation. Let me go try that.

> FWIW I have this patch lingering about that I wrote months ago, to check
> for header problems (not C++ stuff, just things like forgetting to
> include some necessary header in some other header). Since it needs a
> lot of polish (needs to ignore certain headers, and avoid leave
> lingering files around), I didn't commit it; and I haven't updated it to
> the new Make recursive stuff, either.

src/tools/pginclude/ already contains several scripts for this sort of
thing. Bruce runs them by hand occasionally, although I just found out
that he's evidently not run the does-each-header-compile-standalone
test in awhile. It would probably pay to automate these.

regards, tom lane