tm vs. std:.tm type in symbol name of std::time_put<>::put()

Marc Glisse marc.glisse@inria.fr
Fri Sep 15 19:34:00 GMT 2017


On Fri, 15 Sep 2017, Marc Glisse wrote:

> On Fri, 15 Sep 2017, Johan Alfredsson wrote:
>
>> I ran into a symbol name difference linking an executable compiled with
>> clang 5.0 vs. compiling with gcc 7.1.0 on Solaris/SPARC.
>> 
>> In bits/locale_facets_nonio.tcc, there is the following template:
>> 
>> template<typename _CharT, typename _OutIter>
>> _OutIter
>> time_put<_CharT, _OutIter>::
>> put(iter_type __s, ios_base& __io, char_type __fill, const tm* __tm,
>> const _CharT* __beg, const _CharT* __end) const
>> 
>> Looking at the symbol in libstdc++.so corresponding to the instantiation of
>> time_put<char, std::ostreambuf_iterator<char, std::char_traits<char>>>, it
>> is
>> 
>> _ZNKSt8time_putIcSt19ostreambuf_iteratorIcSt11char_
>> traitsIcEEE3putES3_RSt8ios_basePK2tmPKcSB_
>> 
>> This corresponds to (according to c++filt):
>> 
>> std::time_put<char, std::ostreambuf_iterator<char, std::char_traits<char> >
>>> ::put(std::ostreambuf_iterator<char, std::char_traits<char> >,
>> std::ios_base&, tm const*, char const*, char const*) const
>> 
>> Now, linking the executable compiled with clang 5.0 results in an error
>> about a missing symbol. That symbol is:
>> 
>> std::time_put<char, std::ostreambuf_iterator<char, std::char_traits<char> >
>>> ::put(std::ostreambuf_iterator<char, std::char_traits<char> >,
>> std::ios_base&, std::tm const*, char const*, char const*) const
>> 
>> where the difference is that the type tm is now std::tm.
>> 
>> It seems to me that std::tm should be the proper type here, but I might be
>> wrong.
>> 
>> Comments?
>
> This was done on purpose when we changed __cplusplus from 1 to 199711, to 
> avoid breaking the ABI. On Solaris, we will mangle std::tm as if it was ::tm 
> until the next ABI break (probably not soon).

https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33767

-- 
Marc Glisse



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