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Date:      Mon, 14 Nov 2011 19:04:16 +0000
From:      David Chisnall <theraven@FreeBSD.org>
To:        David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, Stefan Farfeleder <stefanf@FreeBSD.org>, Dimitry Andric <dim@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r227487 - head/include
Message-ID:  <3B8C1412-E18D-47E3-A09D-4847DD078963@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20111114180235.GA58284@zim.MIT.EDU>
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On 14 Nov 2011, at 18:02, David Schultz wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 14, 2011, Dimitry Andric wrote:
>> On 2011-11-14 09:21, Stefan Farfeleder wrote:
>>> On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 04:18:48PM +0000, David Chisnall wrote:
>>>> Author: theraven
>>>> Date: Sun Nov 13 16:18:48 2011
>>>> New Revision: 227487
>>>> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/227487
>>>>=20
>>>> Log:
>>>>  The spec says that FILE must be defined in wchar.h, but it wasn't. =
 It
>>>>  is now.  Also hide some macros in C++ mode that will break C++
>>>>  namespaced calls.
>>>>=20
>>>>  Approved by:	dim (mentor)
>>>=20
>>> I think this change is wrong. Whic spec are you referring to? C99
>>> defines FILE only in 7.19.1#2 (stdio.h). In other headers FILE is =
used
>>> as parameter type for functions but that does not mean it is =
exported to
>>> user space.
>>=20
>> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xsh/wchar.h.html
>=20
> It's a niggling detail, but that's an extension to the C standard,
> so properly speaking, it belongs in an
>  #if __POSIX_VISIBLE >=3D 200809 || XSI_VISIBLE
> (or something like that).  The formals were struct __sFILE *
> instead of FILE * for that reason -- see r103177.
>=20
> P.S. You're looking at a very old version of POSIX.  Check out:
>     http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/

The C99 and C1x specifications both seem to require stdio.h to be =
included before wchar.h.  I think this therefore places including =
wchar.h and not stdio.h in the category of undefined (or, at least, not =
defined) behaviour, so we are free to do anything in this case.  I would =
say that accepting the code and working as the programmer expected is =
the least harmful thing to do here.  This is what Darwin libc does =
(actually, it #includes stdio.h in wchar.h). =20

David=



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