Re: gets with C++ and GCC before 4.7

["Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>]

On Fri, 9 Mar 2012, Roland McGrath wrote:

> > As I understand it, the libstdc++ maintainers would prefer to have gets 
> > declarations for C++ up to and including C++11, following the C++ 
> > standard, and only disable the declaration in a future C++17 mode.  That 
> > is, the state immediately after my commit 
> > 8ecd6b2a1283a28bcf56cfe48099fafa412a3929 would be preferable to them, and 
> > from their point of view no such macro would need to be defined because 
> > C++17 mode would use a newer __cplusplus value to disable the declaration.
> 
> If C++11 says that #include <stdio.h> should declare gets regardless
> of things like feature-test macros, then it seems pretty cut and dry.

Should I then remove the __USE_GNU test from inside the C++ case?  That's 
fine with me.

Feature-test macros are outside the scope of ISO C++.  But _GNU_SOURCE is 
always defined by GCC when compiling C++ code, because libstdc++ needs 
functionality from the C library that's outside pure ISO C and C++, so 
there is no way to tell whether the user wanted the strict ISO C++ library 
or the GNU variant - and developing a way to make the relevant 
functionality visible to libstdc++ in a namespace-clean way, so that a 
user can choose what becomes visible from the C library, would certainly 
be a substantial project.

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Joseph S. Myers
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