On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 12:31:00PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote: > > a) Delete nonsense about "not polluting the namespace with stddef.h > > symbols" since string.h includes stddef.h a little later anyway. > > If you are talking specifically about the glibc implementation's string.h, > then you are confused.
No, I was talking about gnulib's string.h. > glibc's string.h complies with the C and POSIX > standards, and so does not pollute the namespace with all of stddef.h's > names. It only defines size_t and NULL via stddef.h. If you also want > ptrdiff_t for use in obstack.h, with GCC's stddef.h you can do: > #define __need_ptrdiff_t > #include <stddef.h> > > That said, I don't think anybody actually cares about a GNU extension > header like obstack.h implicitly defining common standard C symbols like > that ones that stddef.h defines. Right. -- Alan Modra Australia Development Lab, IBM
