[libc++ patch] Don't define __need_FOO in cstddef

Chandler Carruth chandlerc at google.com
Thu May 15 10:05:25 PDT 2014


On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 11:04 AM, Marshall Clow <mclow.lists at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On May 15, 2014, at 10:12 AM, Chandler Carruth <chandlerc at google.com>
> wrote:
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> Yea, I agree. And luckily, I can see Marshall and so will ensure this gets
> reviewed ... now-ish. it's breaking my bootstrap with libc++.
>
>
> I will review this tonight.
>

Thanks! (And sorry for the not-so-gentle-in-person-ping...) ;]

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> — Marshall
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> On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 10:08 AM, Jeffrey Yasskin <jyasskin at google.com>wrote:
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>> I would totally believe those were wrong. They worked around
>> <stddef.h> doing something absolutely crazy that I don't remember
>> anymore, and it sounds like that's been fixed.
>>
>> On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 5:20 AM, Alp Toker <alp at nuanti.com> wrote:
>> > A little SVN digging indicates the change originated in r104516.
>> Removing it
>> > cursorily seems OK, CC'ing in Jeffrey Yasskin who wrote it.
>> >
>> > Alp.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On 15/05/2014 07:21, Nico Weber wrote:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Ping.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On May 13, 2014 12:05 PM, "Nico Weber" <thakis at chromium.org
>> >> <mailto:thakis at chromium.org>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>     D'oh, forgot to cc Marshall :-)
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>     On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 12:00 PM, Nico Weber <thakis at chromium.org
>> >>     <mailto:thakis at chromium.org>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>         Hi,
>> >>
>> >>         r207606 changed the __need_foo macros to behave like they do
>> >>         with gcc: If they are set, _only_ the __need_foo stuff gets
>> >>         defined. libc++'s cstddef sets a few __need_foo settings, so
>> >>         cstddef now doesn't work right with libc++ after clang r207606.
>> >>
>> >>         The attached patch removes the __need_foo defines from
>> >>         libc++'s cstddef. They were added with a cryptic commit
>> >>         message ""for ubuntu" years ago - I think they're incorrect,
>> >>         and things still seem to work without them. (libstdc++ doesn't
>> >>         set them either.) Maybe they were needed before clang had
>> >>         r207606 - if so, this patch should also improve how libc++
>> >>         works when built with gcc.
>> >>
>> >>         This fixes PR19723, see the bug for some more information and
>> >>         discussion.
>> >>
>> >>         Ok?
>> >>
>> >>         Nico
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
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