Re: abs(int) missing

[Levente Farkas <lfarkas at mindmaker dot hu>]

Steven King wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Levente Farkas wrote:
> 
> >
> > this means that you can compile the above code ???
> 
>   Yes.
> 
> > my compiled and used gcc (and libstdc++ is not the latest 2.96 20000724),
> > but I've got the latest cvs and I compare :
> > cstdlib
> > bits/std_cstdlib.h
> > shadow/stdlib.h
> > and these files are identical. so what else can be the problem ?
> > anyways the stdlib.h from glibc contain abs(int) but not abs(long) (just
> > labs(long)) who these function get into std ? the above three files
> > just include themself and the original stdlib.h (and move those functions
> > to the global namespace (???)).
> 
>   Look in shadow/bits/std_stdlib.h, there are definitions for abs(long) and even
> (if long long is enabled) abs (long long) .  If you add the shadow
> directory to the include search path, cstdlib -> shadow/bits/std_cstdlib.h,
> cmath -> shadow/bits/std_cmath, etc.

how can I do that ? recompile gcc with --enable-cshadow-headers ?

 -- Levente
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