[PATCH] D12747: Implement [depr.c.headers]

Eric Fiselier via cfe-commits cfe-commits at lists.llvm.org
Thu Oct 8 18:09:53 PDT 2015


Patch #11 LGTM. Any reason you removed the "#pragma diagnostic ignored
"-Wnonnull"" in test/std/depr/depr.c.headers/stdlib_h.pass.cpp?
I would like to leave it in so this test doesn't fail with older clang
versions.

/Eric

On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 6:47 PM, Eric Fiselier <eric at efcs.ca> wrote:
> Patch #10 LGTM.
>
> On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 4:28 PM, Richard Smith <richard at metafoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 11:50 AM, Marshall Clow <mclow.lists at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 3:57 PM, Richard Smith <richard at metafoo.co.uk>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> <stddef.h>. This one is tricky:
>>>>
>>>> 1) There's an (undocumented) interface between the C standard library and
>>>> this header, where the macros __need_ptrdiff_t, __need_size_t,
>>>> __need_wchar_t, __need_NULL, __need_wint_t request just a piece of this
>>>> header rather than the whole thing. If we see any of those, just go straight
>>>> to the underlying header.
>>>
>>>
>>> Ok, but in that case we don't get nullptr.  I suspect that's OK.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> 2) We probably don't want <stddef.h> to include <cstddef> (for
>>>> consistency with other headers)
>>>
>>>
>>> No, we do not! :-)
>>>
>>>>
>>>> , but <stddef.h> must provide a ::nullptr_t (which we don't want
>>>> <cstddef> to provide). So neither header includes the other. Instead, both
>>>> include <__nullptr> for std::nullptr_t, and we duplicate the definition of
>>>> max_align_t between them, in the case where the compiler's <stddef.h>
>>>> doesn't provide it.
>>>>
>>>> If you prefer, I could make <stddef.h> include <cstddef> to avoid the
>>>> duplication of the max_align_t logic.
>>>
>>>
>>> No; this is a minor annoyance, and layer jumping (<stdXXX.h> including
>>> <cstdXXX>) is a major annoyance - and I'm pretty sure that that would come
>>> back to bite us in the future.
>>>
>>> Looks ok to me.
>>
>>
>> Thanks, everything up to and including patch 09 is now committed.


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