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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Jelte Fennema-Nio <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Munro <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Make copyObject work in C++
Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2025 14:45:07 -0500
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
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Jelte Fennema-Nio <[email protected]> writes:
> Calling copyObject fails in C++ with an error like in most setups:
> error: use of undeclared identifier 'typeof'; did you mean 'typeid'
> This is due to the C compiler supporting used to compile postgres
> supporting typeof, but that function actually not being present in the
> C++ compiler. This fixes that by using decltype instead of typeof when
> including the header in C++.

Hmm, this only fixes the one use-case.  Admittedly we have only one
use-case, but as soon as we have another we'll have a new problem.
How about instead modifying the macro?  Maybe something like this
in c.h (untested):

#ifdef __cplusplus
#undef typeof
#define typeof decltype
#define HAVE_TYPEOF 1
#endif

> Another approach would be to force the value of HAVE_TYPEOF to 0 if __cplusplus.

That would be sad, because we'd lose the type checking ability
of copyObject() in C++ code.

BTW, grepping finds a number of random references to __typeof__ and
__typeof, which probably ought to be updated to be just typeof.

			regards, tom lane

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