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Date:      Tue, 11 Mar 2003 12:36:44 -0500 (EST)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
To:        "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
Cc:        Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.ORG>, standards@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: CFR: add widely accepted _ISOC99_SOURCE
Message-ID:  <200303111736.h2BHaiBL062937@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20030311164240.GA2305@nagual.pp.ru>
References:  <20030310061548.GA85361@nagual.pp.ru> <20030310104434.P70629@espresso.bsdmike.org> <20030311144501.GA364@nagual.pp.ru> <20030311104943.A88290@espresso.bsdmike.org> <20030311164240.GA2305@nagual.pp.ru>

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<<On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 19:42:41 +0300, "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru> said:

> What to do, if, say, C99 program want to use some POSIX functions from 
> lower (and not from higher) POSIX standard?

Programmer error.  Either it's a C99 program or it's an old-POSIX
program; it cannot be both.

> #define _GNU_SOURCE  1
> #define _ISOC99_SOURCE  1
> #define _POSIX_C_SOURCE  199506L
> #define _XOPEN_SOURCE  500
> #define _LARGEFILE64_SOURCE  1

It is requesting contradictory namespaces, and getting what it
deserves.  It should not define any of these.

-GAWollman


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