Re: Overloading vs. string functions, etc.

[Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>]

>>>>> "Andreas" == Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> writes:

    Andreas> But this would break with GCC 2.95, wouldn't it?  So it
    Andreas> should be (__GNUC_PREREQ just check that we use GCC with
    Andreas> the supplied version):

Yes -- I was short on the details.

    >> Also, add overloads for the variants of these functions that
    >> are not present in C?  And make the functions inlines that call
    >> `__builtin_foo' under C++?

    Andreas> I'm not sure what you really mean here.

In C++, the standard says that there are two versions of some
functions.  Like ones that take a `char *' -- C++ sometimes has an
extra version with the same name that takes a `const char *' as well.

    Andreas> I have to discuss this with the other glibc developers
    Andreas> and this is actually not yet implemented so might be too
    Andreas> late for GCC 3.0.

Definitely.  I'm thinking for the sometime-distant future.

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