libstdc++/2767

[Peter Schmid]

The following reply was made to PR libstdc++/2767; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Peter Schmid <schmid@snake.iap.physik.tu-darmstadt.de>
To: bkoz@gcc.gnu.org
Cc: gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: libstdc++/2767
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 05:46:31 +0200 (CEST)

 Please close the bugreport and file a new one, if not someone else
 did, for the following code te.C. I believe this code is reasonable
 and the inclusion of both string.h and cstring.h
 happens in known programming packages, e.g. confer root. 
 
 Hope this helps,
 
 Peter Schmid
 
 Source code te.C
 
 #include<string.h>
 #include<cstring> 
 using namespace std;
 
 void f(const char *name)
 {
     strchr(name,'/');
 }
 
 g++ -v -c te.C
 Reading specs from /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.0/specs
 Configured with: ../gcc/configure --enable-shared --disable-nls --enable-threads=posix --enable-long-long --enable-languages=c,c++,f77,objc
 Thread model: posix
 gcc version 3.0 20010525 (prerelease)
  /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.0/cc1plus -v -D__GNUC__=3 -D__GNUC_MINOR__=0 -D__GNUC_PATCHLEVEL__=0 -D__ELF__ -Dunix -Dlinux -D__ELF__ -D__unix__ -D__linux__ -D__unix -D__linux -Asystem=posix -D__STDC_HOSTED__=1 -Acpu=i386 -Amachine=i386 -Di386 -D__i386 -D__i386__ -D__tune_i686__ -D__tune_pentiumpro__ te.C -D__GNUG__=3 -D_GNU_SOURCE -D__GXX_DEPRECATED -D__EXCEPTIONS -D__GXX_ABI_VERSION=100 -quiet -dumpbase te.C -version -o /tmp/ccvvWzyB.s
 GNU CPP version 3.0 20010525 (prerelease) (cpplib) (i386 Linux/ELF)
 GNU C++ version 3.0 20010525 (prerelease) (i686-pc-linux-gnu)
 	compiled by GNU C version 3.0 20010525 (prerelease).
 #include "..." search starts here:
 #include <...> search starts here:
  /usr/local/include/g++-v3
  /usr/local/include/g++-v3/i686-pc-linux-gnu
  /usr/local/include/g++-v3/backward
  /usr/local/include
  /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.0/include
  /usr/local/i686-pc-linux-gnu/include
  /usr/include
 End of search list.
 te.C: In function `void f(const char*)':
 te.C:7: call of overloaded `strchr(const char*&, char)' is ambiguous
 /usr/include/string.h:155: candidates are: char* strchr(const char*, int)
 /usr/local/include/g++-v3/bits/std_cstring.h:147:                 char* 
    std::strchr(char*, int) <near match>
 /usr/local/include/g++-v3/bits/std_cstring.h:143:                 const char* 
    std::strchr(const char*, int)