Re: Why strcpy and not strtod?

[Robert Boehne <rboehne at ricardo-us dot com>]

Paolo Carlini wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > What I do not understand is why strtod is accepted (after having included
> > <cstdlib>).
> 
> Most probably this has to do with the fact that strcpy is a builtin whereas strtod
> is not.
> 
> Recent patches by Mark Mitchell:
> 
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2001-05/msg01765.html
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2001-05/msg01766.html
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2001-05/msg01767.html
> 
> involved this part of the compiler.
> 
> It seems that something is still not completely sorted out, however:
> 
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/libstdc++/2001-05/msg00363.html
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Paolo Carlini.

I've found a similar problem with today's gcc 3.0 sources.  When I use
it
to compile a source file that uses strcmp() from <string.h> the
preprocessed
(*.ii) file has the definition from <string.h> but the compiler tells
me:
`strcmp' undeclared (first use this function)
Are these problems related?

Robert

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