Re: [HACKERS] static assertions in C++

On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 6:37 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Meh.  We support ancient versions of C for backwards compatibility
> reasons, but considering that compiling backend code with C++ isn't
> officially supported at all, I'm not sure we need to cater to ancient
> C++ compilers.  We could quibble about the value of "ancient" of
> course --- Peter, do you have an idea when this construct became
> widely supported?
>
> I do think it might be a better idea to put a #error there instead
> of silently disabling static assertions.  Then at least we could
> hope to get complaints if anyone *is* trying to use ancient C++,
> and thereby gauge whether it's worth working any harder for this.

I guess my question was whether we couldn't just use the same
workaround we use for old C compilers.

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