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Re: [Bug-gnulib] stdbool_.h bug breaks coreutils CVS sort on Alpha GCC 2
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: [Bug-gnulib] stdbool_.h bug breaks coreutils CVS sort on Alpha GCC 2.95.4 |
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05 Aug 2003 13:12:54 -0700 |
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Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:
> I object against this patch because a program is allowed to do
>
> #include <stdbool.h>
> #undef _Bool
> bool x = true;
>
> and your patch breaks it.
Pedantically speaking, wouldn't such a program violate the C standard?
The standard says that identifiers like '_Bool' are reserved, and that
programs cannot even #undef them; see the last sentence of section
7.1.3 of the C99 standard.
And practically speaking, such a program is quite unlikely; I don't
think we really need to worry about it. We cannot emulate C99
<stdbool.h> precisely in C89, for all possible weird test cases. The
best we can do is support the usage of <stdbool.h> constructs in
practical applications on practical hosts.
> If you really want to care about warnings from this particular non-free
> compiler, I'd prefer a #if conditional, using an autoconf test. Just like
> I had to make this @HAVE__BOOL@ test for the sake of the OSF/1 cc
> compilers.
Perhaps I'm missing something, but I don't see how this proposal would
address your objection. Even with the #if conditional, a GNU program
still couldn't #undef _Bool, since the code still wouldn't work using
the Forte compiler.
The @HAVE__BOOL@ test doesn't have this problem.
- Re: [Bug-gnulib] stdbool_.h bug breaks coreutils CVS sort on Alpha GCC 2.95.4, Paul Eggert, 2003/08/03
- Re: [Bug-gnulib] stdbool_.h bug breaks coreutils CVS sort on Alpha GCC 2.95.4, Bruno Haible, 2003/08/05
- Re: [Bug-gnulib] stdbool_.h bug breaks coreutils CVS sort on Alpha GCC 2.95.4,
Paul Eggert <=
- Re: [Bug-gnulib] stdbool_.h bug breaks coreutils CVS sort on Alpha GCC 2.95.4, Bruno Haible, 2003/08/07
- Re: [Bug-gnulib] stdbool_.h bug breaks coreutils CVS sort on Alpha GCC 2.95.4, Paul Eggert, 2003/08/07
- Re: [Bug-gnulib] stdbool_.h bug breaks coreutils CVS sort on Alpha GCC 2.95.4, Bruno Haible, 2003/08/08
- Re: [Bug-gnulib] stdbool_.h bug breaks coreutils CVS sort on Alpha GCC 2.95.4, Paul Eggert, 2003/08/08
- Re: [Bug-gnulib] stdbool_.h bug breaks coreutils CVS sort on Alpha GCC 2.95.4, Bruno Haible, 2003/08/11