It would be nice to make <xxx.h> provide the original C library and <cxxx>
the modified C library (with even bigger changes) to solve the mess. It
won't break C compatibility and will even provide better C compatibility.

On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 2:09 AM Thiago Macieira via Std-Proposals <
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> On Sunday, 23 October 2022 05:29:14 PDT Ville Voutilainen via
> Std-Proposals
> wrote:
> > Not the underlying one, the one that in some implementations is
> > system-provided. C++ implementations
> > can and do provide their own implementations of <cstdlib> and <cmath>.
>
> Indeed, but that doesn't solve the mess of workarounds. Getting WG14 to do
> something would be the cleanest of course.
>
> Do note that <ctype.h> is the worst of all, though, because all those
> isxxx
> are macros, requiring either C lib help (glibc doesn't define them in C++
> mode)
> or #undef in the C++ override.
>
> In any case, how about we add the _l explicit-locale additional functions
> to
> C++ first?
>
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