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Order of headers should not matter in any sane language. This just proves that C++ is not a sane language. Yet Bjarne Stroustrup keeps getting engineering awards! If I were king of programming languages, I would forbid any new lines of C++ to be brought into this world, and install mandatory programmes for rewriting legacy C++ code in sane languages.

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But the root cause here lies with GCC or rather glibc and not the language? C++ is but a tool, just like every other language.

It likes with C++ not having a proper module system enforcing properties like module import order being irrelevant, and the glibc developers apparently failing to produce modules having such properties even if the language doesn't enforce it.

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