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27b8e80941Smrg/*
28b8e80941Smrg * Including system's headers inside `extern "C" { ... }` is not safe, as system
29b8e80941Smrg * headers may have C++ code in them, and C++ code inside extern "C"
30b8e80941Smrg * leads to syntatically incorrect code.
31b8e80941Smrg *
32b8e80941Smrg * This is because putting code inside extern "C" won't make __cplusplus define
33b8e80941Smrg * go away, that is, the system header being included thinks is free to use C++
34b8e80941Smrg * as it sees fits.
35b8e80941Smrg *
36b8e80941Smrg * Including non-system headers inside extern "C"  is not safe either, because
37b8e80941Smrg * non-system headers end up including system headers, hence fall in the above
38b8e80941Smrg * case too.
39b8e80941Smrg *
40b8e80941Smrg * Conclusion, includes inside extern "C" is simply not portable.
41b8e80941Smrg *
42b8e80941Smrg *
43b8e80941Smrg * This header helps surface these issues.
44b8e80941Smrg */
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46b8e80941Smrg#ifdef __cplusplus
47b8e80941Smrgtemplate<class T> class _IncludeInsideExternCNotPortable;
48b8e80941Smrg#endif
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