[RFC] Moving apart SGI extensions

[Phil Edwards]

On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 07:56:14AM +0100, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> Benjamin Kosnik <bkoz@redhat.com> writes:
> 
> [...]
> 
> | > What else should I do? Even inside __gnu_cxx should the names be uglifyied? In
> | > case, how exactly, i.e., how when, f.i., __random_sample and random_sample are
> | > both already used??
> | 
> | Yeah usually the names have to be uglified even in the squestered namespace.
> | So, random_sample -> __random_sample. I believe they all have different 
> | arguments, so it shouldn't matter if some already are named __random_sample.
> 
> Existing codes using such extensions might get in troubles.  I don't
> recall if we have a macro along the line _GLIBCPP_USE_SGI_EXTENSIONS.

We don't.  It sounds like a good idea though.

I have some ideas for managing new extensions, but I'm ambivalent about
the current/old SGI extensions.


Phil

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