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Re: strtof is not defined anymore in std=c++11
- From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen at redhat dot com>
- To: newlib at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2013 21:19:49 +0200
- Subject: Re: strtof is not defined anymore in std=c++11
- References: <515AB4D3 dot 8060405 at st dot com> <20130402120003 dot GC32544 at calimero dot vinschen dot de> <515B2D19 dot 10306 at dronecode dot org dot uk>
- Reply-to: newlib at sourceware dot org
On Apr 2 20:10, Jon TURNEY wrote:
> On 02/04/2013 13:00, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Apr 2 12:37, Laurent Alfonsi wrote:
> >> The strtof function is now rejected when selecting the gcc C++11
> >> standard option.
> >> This regression has been introduced in this patch
> >> http://sourceware.org/ml/newlib/2012/msg00425.html
> >>
> >> J.Turney patch is fine regarding the C standard side, but when using
> >> from C++ :
> >> $ cat a.cpp
> >> #include <cstdlib>
> >>
> >> float f(const char *s, char **endptr) {
> >> return strtof(s, endptr);
> >> }
> >>
> >> It fails with the message :
> >> $ g++ -std=c++11 a.cpp
> >> a.cpp: In function 'float f(const char*, char**)':
> >> a.cpp:3:30: error: 'strtof' was not declared in this scope
> >>
> >> Whereas this function strtof is well included in the cstdlib header
> >> file defined in C++11 ISO.
> >>
> >> Please advice.
> >
> > Not sure. Enabling c++11 implies defining __STRICT_ANSI__ with gcc.
> > Maybe we have to add something like this to the #if's guarding the
> > declarations:
> >
> > || (defined (__cplusplus) && __cplusplus >= 201103L)
>
> Yes. I think that all of the protoypes I touched: strtof(), strtoll(),
> strtoull() and strtold() need this attention.
>
> As currently written, it doesn't test if __STDC_VERSION__ is defined (and so
> uses the assumed value of 0 when compiling C++), so do we actually need to
> test if __cplusplus is defined?
>
> Would you like me to write a patch?
That would be nice!
Thanks,
Corinna
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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Maintainer
Red Hat