3.1 branch libstdc++ problem with ctime on hpux

Phil Edwards phil@jaj.com
Tue Mar 26 19:48:00 GMT 2002


On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 04:35:01PM -0700, law@redhat.com wrote:
> 
> The underlying problem is "ctime" provided by libstdc++-v3 defines "_CTIME",
> which is a special symbol for HPUX -- if _CTIME is defined, then HPUX will
> not provide a prototype for the "ctime" function.
> 
> The only reason _CTIME is defined apparently is to deal with including
> "ctime" multiple times. 

Usually there's a smarter multiple-inclusion guard than just this; _CPP_foo
or __SGI_STL_INTERNAL_foo_H are the two most common.  If we can think up
a more consistent scheme I'll volunteer to do the gruntwork changes for
3.1 and 3.2.


Phil

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