G++ defines _GNU_SOURCE, implies C99

Daniel Jacobowitz drow@mvista.com
Fri Sep 13 17:15:00 GMT 2002


On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 04:32:55PM -0700, Mike Eager wrote:
> For this one small part of the problem, does _GNU_SOURCES really need
> to define _USE_ISOC99?  

Yes; the question is, what features does g++ really need from the
library and can they be gotten with something less encompassing than
-D_GNU_SOURCE.  -D_GNU_SOURCE is supposed to provide a growing set of
current extensions to the language, and new features of the GNU C
library.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer



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