[PATCH] D17456: [libcxx] Reorganize _LIBCPP_LOCALE__L_EXTENSIONS

[Jonathan Roelofs via cfe-commits]

jroelofs added a comment.

In http://reviews.llvm.org/D17456#357245, @bcraig wrote:

> In http://reviews.llvm.org/D17456#357232, @jroelofs wrote:
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> > > The private redirector symbol names are all prefixed with _CXX_* so that they won't conflict with user symbols,
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> > This is more @mclow.lists/@ericwf's domain, but I think __libcxx_ prefixes would be safer (so that there's no chance of clashing with libstdc++, if they decide to do something similar, or already have).
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> Do we need our headers to coexist with the headers from other C++ implementations?  That seems fraught with peril.  I've tried to do something like that in the past with STLPort in combination with various compilers' STLs, and ADL basically made the results unusable.


I think the headers are a lost cause. It's the symbols I'm actually worried about. There are people who link against both standard libraries (and that's a valid, supported use case).


http://reviews.llvm.org/D17456