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Re: C99 headers namespace patch
>>>>> James Antill writes:
> "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@cam.ac.uk> writes:
>> This patch fixes some of the trivial C99 namespace issues in the glibc
>> headers previously reported.
> Sorry, maybe I missed something but...
>> --- math/tgmath.h Wed Aug 2 00:58:36 2000
>> +++ math/tgmath.h.new Sat Aug 19 18:30:52 2000
>> @@ -345,7 +345,7 @@
>> /* Error and gamma functions. */
>> #define erf(Val) __TGMATH_UNARY_REAL_ONLY (Val, erf)
>> #define erfc(Val) __TGMATH_UNARY_REAL_ONLY (Val, erfc)
>> -#define gamma(Val) __TGMATH_UNARY_REAL_ONLY (Val, gamma)
>> +#define tgamma(Val) __TGMATH_UNARY_REAL_ONLY (Val, tgamma)
>> #define lgamma(Val) __TGMATH_UNARY_REAL_ONLY (Val, lgamma)
> The above looks like a source incompatible change, as gamma() exists
> in my 2.1.3 headers.
tgmath should define only tgamma, this is right - 2.1.3 was wrong
(following an older draft of ISO C9x).
This is incompatible - but we we're not bug compatible ;-).
Andreas
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