why no _GLIBCXX_USE_C99_STDLIB?

Andriy Gapon avg@FreeBSD.org
Mon Feb 4 06:31:00 GMT 2013


on 01/02/2013 16:35 Paolo Carlini said the following:
> Hi,
> 
>> I see that that are other, more specialized feature macros like e.g. 
>> _GLIBCXX_USE_C99_MATH. Why not have _GLIBCXX_USE_C99_STDLIB? I hope that
>> this suggestion makes sense.
> 
> In principle it definitely makes sense. In practice, it's matter of balancing
> the usefulness of it for a target somebody really cares about (among the few
> still not fully supporting C99 in 2013) vs the additional complexity... and
> then actually doing the work, of course (expected to be rather
> straightforward, anyway).

Well, FreeBSD is such a platform and the only thing missing is full C99 complex
support.  I can try to put together the change.

-- 
Andriy Gapon



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