As you yourself point out, the purpose of the AC_PROG_CC_C99 macro is to discover compiler flags that put the compiler in a C99-ish mode, *not* to guarantee that the compiler completely conforms to the C++ standard.
^^^ (C++, C99, who can tell?)
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