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Re: char* foo(const char*) standard functions

From: Joe Buck <Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot COM>
To: Paolo Carlini <pcarlini at suse dot de>
Cc: Marc Glisse <marc dot glisse at normalesup dot org>, libstdc++ at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 14:29:25 -0700
Subject: Re: char* foo(const char*) standard functions
References: <Pine.GSO.4.63.0605301335080.12921@clipper.ens.fr> <447C9FB6.5020903@suse.de> <Pine.GSO.4.63.0605302204080.8347@clipper.ens.fr> <447CB4F3.802@suse.de>

On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 11:11:15PM +0200, Paolo Carlini wrote:
> Marc Glisse wrote:
> 
> >Ok thanks, if this discussion is the reference on the subject, I will 
> >consider getting these 2 additional unexpected failures on solaris 
> >not-a-bug (or even a good thing), although I still find it arguable 
> >that the testsuite considers it a bug.
> 
> The testsuite considers it "a bug" because, 'til today we worked under 
> the assumption that the supported targets don't change the C headers 
> depending on the C++ compiler being used ...

This assumption is, I believe, violated by Sun, HP, and Microsoft,
all of which ship headers with "if C++" constructs in them.  If anything,
glibc is the outlier.

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