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Re: [std-proposals] Impose friendship when needed

From: Giuseppe D'Angelo <giuseppe.dangelo_at_[hidden]>
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2022 08:07:36 +0200
Il 18/07/22 12:26, Sebastian Wittmeier via Std-Proposals ha scritto:
> If the library was compiled in binary form, changing the access modifier
> can break compatibility of class layout. But under controlled
> circumstances this could be a successful hack (and its success can be
> automatically tested with offsetof, etc., for each class member)

Even simpler than this: you can't #define a language keyword.

https://eel.is/c++draft/macro.names#2

> A translation unit shall not #define or #undef names lexically identical to keywords, to the identifiers listed in Table 4, or to the attribute-tokens described in [dcl.attr], except that the names likely and unlikely may be defined as function-like macros ([cpp.replace]).


My 2 c,
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Received on 2022-07-19 06:07:40