What does "profil" means in C++

[Jonathan Wakely]

On 10 March 2016 at 17:16, Andrew Haley wrote:
> On 10/03/16 17:14, Patrick Begou wrote:
>> Andrew Haley wrote:
>>> On 10/03/16 16:08, Patrick Begou wrote:
>>>> If I replace "profil" by "profile" as the class name it works on all compilers.
>>> "g++ -E -Wp,-dD" is your friend.
>>
>> so profil is a function declared in /usr/include/unistd.h and it collapse with
>> my type.
>> But this do not occur with all compilers...
>
> It's a bug in that old version of GCC, I think.  unistd.h should not
> pollute your namespace like that.

Rather than trying to change the contents of <unistd.h> we modified
the libstdc++ headers to avoid including <unistd.h>, as documented at
https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.7/changes.html