result of fabs or fma when <math.h> is not included?

Mason slash.tmp@free.fr
Mon May 15 13:25:00 GMT 2017


On 15/05/2017 13:22, Vincent Lefevre wrote:

> Following PR80756 (which is currently about missing diagnostics, but
> the problem may be more important), what should be the result of the
> following code?
> 
> double fabs (double x)
> {
>   return x + 1.0;
> }
> 
> int main (void)
> {
>   double x = fabs (2.0);
>   return x != 3.0;
> }
> 
> Note that <math.h> is not included. When -fno-builtin-fabs is used,
> the program returns 0 (because x == 3.0). But by default, a builtin
> is used, and the program returns 1. Since <math.h> is not included,
> I don't think this is correct. But Clang has the same behavior.
> 
> Note that neither give any warning, even with -Wall -Wextra.

Isn't it UB to (re)define standard functions?

Regards.



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