Overloading vs. string functions, etc.

[Phil Edwards]

On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 09:17:41AM +0200, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> writes:
> > Make <string.h> contain:
> > 
> >   #ifdef __cplusplus
> >   namespace std {
> >   #endif
> 
> But this would break with GCC 2.95, wouldn't it?  So it should be
> (__GNUC_PREREQ just check that we use GCC with the supplied version):
> 
> #if defined __cplusplus && __GNUC_PREREQ (3,0)
> namespace std {
> #endif

We could take advantage of the fact that the C++ Standard provides for this:

    #if __cplusplus >= 199711L
    namespace std {
    #endif

GCC 2.95 wouldn't see the namespace that way.

Currently we're still (nonconformingly) defining __cplusplus to be 1
rather than the value defined by ISO.  We tried to fix this once before,
but because Solaris already /does/ #if's like this one, we suddenly started
picking up system headers that we weren't before.  Some work on this has
already been done.


Phil

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