[cfe-dev] Is this a bug?

[James Dennett]

On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 1:52 AM, Devchandra L Meetei <dlmeetei at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> cstdint is part of C++11.  The previous C++ standard did not include
>> C99 headers or features.
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> So it means that though c99 has support for stdint.h, c++ make use of only
> in C++11?

Yes, C++11 is the first C++ standard to be based on C99.  The previous
C++ standard came before C99 was published.

You may well be able to use stdint.h from a C++98 compiler as an
extension, but it's not a bug if a C++98 compiler doesn't support C99
facilities.

-- James