Strange C++ function pointer test

[Dominik Vogt]

On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 10:11:55AM +0000, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
> On 31 December 2015 at 09:57, Marc Glisse wrote:
> > On Thu, 31 Dec 2015, Dominik Vogt wrote:
> >
> >> This snippet ist from the Plumhall 2014 xvs test suite:
> >>
> >>  #if CXX03 || CXX11 || CXX14
> >>  static float (*p1_)(float) = abs;
> >>  ...
> >>  checkthat(__LINE__, p1_ != 0);
> >>  #endif
> >>
> >> (With the testsuite specific macros doing the obvious).  abs() is
> >> declared as:
> >>
> >>  int abs(int j)
> >>
> >> Am I missing some odd C++ feature or is that part of the test just
> >> plain wrong?  I don't know where to look in the C++ standard; is
> 
> Try searching the library clauses (17 to 30) for "abs". You'll find
> the answer in 26.8 [c.math].
> 
> >> this supposed to compile (with or without a warning?) or generate
> >> an error or is it just undefined?
> >>
> >>  error: invalid conversion from ‘int (*)(int) throw ()’ to ‘float
> >> (*)(float)’ [-fpermissive]
> >>
> >> (Of course even with -fpermissive this won't work because (at
> >> least on my platform) ints are passed in different registers than
> >> floats.)
> >
> >
> > There are other overloads of 'abs' declared in math.h / cmath (only in
> > namespace std in the second case, and there are bugs (or standard issues)
> > about having them in the global namespace for the first one).
> 
> That's not quite accurate, C++11 was altered slightly to reflect reality.
 
> <cmath> is required to declare std::abs and it's unspecified whether
> it also declares it as ::abs.
> 
> <math.h> is required to declare ::abs and it's unspecified whether it
> also declares it as std::abs.

(*abs should be in <cstdlib> or <stdlib.h>).

I see.  abs and ::abs are the same in this case, and std::abs
refers to the "double" variant, so that does not compile either.

The minimal failing program is

-- abs.C --
#include <stdlib.h> 
static float (*p1_)(float) = abs;
-- abs.C --

G++-6.0.0, Glibc-2.20 on S390x, compiled with

  $ g++ -std=c++11 abs.C

The test program from the xvs suite includes stdlib.h and math.h,
but not cstdlib, cmath (or ctgmath).  It's not clear to me which
headers g++ includes automatically, but this seems to be correct
behaviour, or is it not?  Does it depend on the Glibc version?

Ciao

Dominik ^_^  ^_^

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Dominik Vogt
IBM Germany