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Date:      Mon, 17 Feb 2014 08:55:59 -0500
From:      Julio Merino <jmmv@outlook.com>
To:        Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-testing@FreeBSD.org, David Chisnall <theraven@FreeBSD.org>, Dimitry Andric <dim@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: Compile error with gcc
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On Feb 17, 2014, at 01:07 , Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com> wrote:
>=20
> Thanks Dimitry for the input.
>=20
> Should this check be done with=85
>=20
> #if defined(__cplusplus) && __cplusplus >=3D <some-date>

I'm not sure it's going to work.  I think Dimitry mentioned that our =
libstdc++ should already provide std::vsnprintf, but due to the flags =
it's built with, it doesn't.  I'm not sure if, due to this, the version =
check above would do the right thing.

> etc, and if so, what c++ standard was vsnprintf incorporated into? It =
looks like <some-date> should be 201103L (c++11) =
(http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/io/c/vfprintf ). If so, then the =
configure.ac tests should instead set the appropriate -std variable (or =
setting), then test for c++=92s existence.

The point of tests in configure.ac scripts is to _not_ do the above =
style of checks.  If you are going to use those, then you don't need =
configure because you can stick those into the code: configure should be =
checking what the compiler actually does, not what it claims to support. =
 This way the checks are future-proof and are going to work even for =
compilers you have not tried yet.

Note that the check in configure.ac is working just fine and that's not =
the problem.  The problem is in FreeBSD, where we have a single =
bconfig.h for the two compilers and the two compilers behave differently =
in at least one of the detected settings.

So... we could generate two bconfig.h files, one for each compiler, and =
use them accordingly... or we could try to eliminate the divergence =
altogether.  To do the latter, I think it's enough to remove the =
conditional and leave the code doing:

namespace std {
using ::vsnprintf;
}

in all cases.  It works in clang but I don't know what the standard has =
to say in this regard!

(FYI: I fixed the immediate problem in HEAD by changing bconfig.h to =
#undef the setting -- just as we had been doing since the initial import =
of ATF.)=



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