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          <th>Bug ID</th>
          <td><a class="bz_bug_link 
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   title="NEW --- - Overzealous warning about C-linkage for complex<double>"
   href="http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=18756">18756</a>
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          <th>Summary</th>
          <td>Overzealous warning about C-linkage for complex<double>
          </td>
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          <th>Product</th>
          <td>clang
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          <th>Version</th>
          <td>3.4
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          <th>Hardware</th>
          <td>Macintosh
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          <th>OS</th>
          <td>MacOS X
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          <th>Status</th>
          <td>NEW
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          <th>Severity</th>
          <td>enhancement
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          <th>Priority</th>
          <td>P
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          <th>Component</th>
          <td>-New Bugs
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          <th>Assignee</th>
          <td>unassignedclangbugs@nondot.org
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          <th>Reporter</th>
          <td>schnetter@gmail.com
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          <th>CC</th>
          <td>llvmbugs@cs.uiuc.edu
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          <th>Classification</th>
          <td>Unclassified
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        <pre>In a project containing C, C++, and Fortran code, we have wrapper routines for
complex numbers. These essentially map to complex<double> for C++, complex
double for C, and complex*16 for Fortran, relying on the fact that these types
all have the same internal representation.

Clang reports a warning for the C++ routines, as if the standard did not
guarantee this layout between C and C++. Here is a simplified example code:

$ cat complex2.cc
#include <complex>
extern "C" std::complex<double> f();

This leads to the warning:

$ clang++ -c complex2.cc
complex2.cc:2:33: warning: 'f' has C-linkage specified, but returns
user-defined
      type 'std::complex<double>' which is incompatible with C
      [-Wreturn-type-c-linkage]
extern "C" std::complex<double> f();
                                ^
1 warning generated.

I believe this warning should be omitted for complex<double>, since the C++
standard guarantees that this type is actually compatible with C.</pre>
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