allow disabling the typechecker by defining CURL_DISABLE_TYPECHECK, as
discussed in http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2008-04/0291.html
diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 04c0a70..812a88b 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -7,6 +7,10 @@
Changelog
+Michal Marek (14 Apr 2008)
+- allow disabling the typechecker by defining CURL_DISABLE_TYPECHECK, as
+ discussed in http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2008-04/0291.html
+
Daniel Stenberg (14 Apr 2008)
- Stefan Krause reported a case where the OpenSSL handshake phase wasn't
properly acknowledging the timeout values, like if you pulled the network
diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES
index a606702..9549b1b 100644
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
o configure now correctly recognizes Heimdal and MIT gssapi libraries
o malloc() failure check in Negotiate
o -i and -I together now work the same no matter what order they're used
+ * the typechecker can be bypassed by defining CURL_DISABLE_TYPECHECK
This release includes the following known bugs:
@@ -38,6 +39,7 @@
advice from friends like these:
Michal Marek, Daniel Fandrich, Scott Barrett, Alexey Simak, Daniel Black,
- Rafa Muyo, Andre Guibert de Bruet, Brock Noland, Sandor Feldi, Stefan Krause
+ Rafa Muyo, Andre Guibert de Bruet, Brock Noland, Sandor Feldi, Stefan Krause,
+ David Shaw
Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone)
diff --git a/include/curl/curl.h b/include/curl/curl.h
index bd188cd..ab6c863 100644
--- a/include/curl/curl.h
+++ b/include/curl/curl.h
@@ -1801,7 +1801,7 @@
/* the typechecker doesn't work in C++ (yet) */
#if (__GNUC__ > 4 || (__GNUC__ == 4 && __GNUC_MINOR__ >= 3)) && \
- !defined(__cplusplus)
+ !defined(__cplusplus) && !defined(CURL_DISABLE_TYPECHECK)
#include "typecheck-gcc.h"
#else
#if defined(__STDC__) && (__STDC__ >= 1)
