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math_errhandling getting undef'ed for -std=gnu11?


My understanding is that C11 requires <math.h> to define math_errhandling (as macro or identifier with external linkage), and my assumption is that GCC's -std=gnu11 (vs. -std=c11), while it might enable language extensions, would not remove from that.

However, at least with glibc-headers-2.28-26.fc29.x86_64,

$ cat test.c
#include <math.h>
int main() { return math_errhandling; }

fails for

$ gcc -m32 -O -std=gnu11 test.c
test.c: In function ‘main’:
test.c:2:21: error: ‘math_errhandling’ undeclared (first use in this function)
 int main() { return math_errhandling; }
                     ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
test.c:2:21: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in

while it succeeds for

$ gcc -m32 -O -std=c11 test.c

What causes the difference is apparently the block

/* Disable x87 inlines when -fpmath=sse is passed and also when we're building
   on x86_64.  Older gcc (gcc-3.2 for example) does not define __SSE2_MATH__
   for x86_64.  */
#if !defined __SSE2_MATH__ && !defined __x86_64__
# if ((!defined __NO_MATH_INLINES || defined __LIBC_INTERNAL_MATH_INLINES) \
     && defined __OPTIMIZE__)

/* The inline functions do not set errno or raise necessarily the
   correct exceptions.  */
#  undef math_errhandling
[...]

in /usr/include/bits/mathinline.h.

Now, my question is whether that is by design (implying that -std=gnu11 is deliberately non-conforming here) or by accident.

(But seeing <https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=da75c1b180f9355a8b2b2584ecf1fcfe03f7107e> "Remove x86 mathinline.h" completely dropping sysdeps/x86/fpu/bits/mathinline.h from later glibc probably makes the question somewhat moot.)


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