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### 1178. Header dependencies

Section: 16.4.6.2 [res.on.headers] Status: C++11 Submitter: Beman Dawes Opened: 2009-07-18 Last modified: 2016-01-28

Priority: Not Prioritized

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Discussion:

See Frankfurt notes of 1001.

Proposed resolution:

Change 16.4.6.2 [res.on.headers], Headers, paragraph 1, as indicated:

> A C++ header may include other C++ headers.[footnote] A C++ header shall provide the declarations and definitions that appear in its synopsis (6.3 [basic.def.odr]). A C++ header shown in its synopsis as including other C++ headers shall provide the declarations and definitions that appear in the synopses of those other headers.

> [footnote] C++ headers must include a C++ header that contains any needed definition (3.2).