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Re: PATCH: Add tgmath.h
On Sun, 15 Aug 2004, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> Now, if you think we should revert from our common working
> assumptions, then I would not disagree. I would just ask we clearly
> define our expectations and user expectations. This is also for the
> interest of other components shipped with GCC, e.g. libstdc++. I can
> see large benefits from tighter coupling of the C library
> implementation and GCC.
>
> However, I don't think it is fair to locally redefine things based on
> interested random patches.
Indeed, and the presumption would be that the first method to try for such
a tighter coupling for the benefit of libstdc++ would be discussion with
the glibc maintainers of how glibc can usefully be adapted - for example,
so that g++ -ansi doesn't need to define _GNU_SOURCE and so break the ISO
C++ namespace rules - not patches to GCC alone to override glibc. Simply
submitting a patch is the wrong way to change policy; there should be
agreement among the maintainers of the relevant GNU software (including
glibc) first.
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