Simon Marchi
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In PR 25731 [1], the following build failure was reported:
../../binutils-gdb/gdb/gdbtypes.c:1254:10: error: no member named 'abs' in namespace 'std'; did you mean simply 'abs'?
= ((std::abs (stride) * element_count) + 7) / 8;
^~~~~~~~
abs
/usr/include/stdlib.h:129:6: note: 'abs' declared here
int abs(int) __pure2;
^
The original report was using:
$ gcc -v
Apple LLVM version 8.0.0 (clang-800.0.42.1)
Target: x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0
Note that I was _not_ able to reproduce using:
$ g++ --version
Configured with: --prefix=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr --with-gxx-include-dir=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/c++/4.2.1
Apple clang version 11.0.0 (clang-1100.0.33.17)
Target: x86_64-apple-darwin19.3.0
The proposed fix is to include <cstdlib> in addition to <stdlib.h>.
Here's an excerpt of [2] relevant to this problem:
These headers [speaking of the .h form] are allowed to also declare
the same names in the std namespace, and the corresponding cxxx
headers are allowed to also declare the same names in the global
namespace: including <cstdlib> definitely provides std::malloc and
may also provide ::malloc. Including <stdlib.h> definitely provides
::malloc and may also provide std::malloc
Since we use std::abs, we should not assume that our include of stdlib.h
declares an `abs` function in the `std` namespace.
If we replace the include of stdlib.h with cstdlib, then we fall in the
opposite situation. A standard C++ library may decide to only put the
declarations in the std namespace, requiring us to prefix all standard
functions with `std::`. I'm not against that, but for the moment I think the
safest way forward is to just include both.
Note that I don't know what effect this patch can have on any stdlib.h fix
provided by gnulib.
[1] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25731
[2] https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/header#C_compatibility_headers
gdbsupport/ChangeLog:
* common-defs.h: Include cstdlib.h.
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