[PATCH] D34695: _Float16 preprocessor macro definitions

Steve Canon via Phabricator via cfe-commits cfe-commits at lists.llvm.org
Tue Sep 12 08:59:42 PDT 2017


scanon added inline comments.


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Comment at: lib/Headers/float.h:137
 
+#ifdef __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
+#  define FLT16_MANT_DIG  __FLT16_MANT_DIG__
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rogfer01 wrote:
> scanon wrote:
> > rogfer01 wrote:
> > > My understanding is that, given that we support TS18661-2 by default, this macro should be predefined by clang and then there is no need to protect these macros.
> > > 
> > > You may want to add a test for this in `test/Preprocessor/init.c`.
> > Where do you see that the `__STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__` macro should be predefined by clang?
> Hi Steve,
> 
> certainly you're right, the TS says
> 
> > The new identifiers added to C11 library headers by this part of ISO/IEC TS-18661 are defined or declared by their respective headers only if `__STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__` is defined as a macro at the point in the source file where the appropriate header is first included.
> 
> so (if I read this right) these identifiers are only available if such macro is defined when including `float.h`. 
> 
> Can I assume from your comment that someone else should define it? Perhaps the `float.h` header itself, some other file in the C-library implementation or the user of the compiler via some `-D__STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__`, but not be predefined by the compiler? If this is the case, then the macros still have to be guarded conditionally (as they were in the original patch).
> 
> Does this make sense? Thanks.
I think we could justify defining it ourselves under non-strict compilation modes; alternatively, system headers might define it for users in non-strict modes.

My reading of the TS is that in strict mode, these types and macros should be hidden unless the user explicitly requests them by defining `__STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__` themselves.


https://reviews.llvm.org/D34695





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