[llvm-dev] Quality of LLVM headers

[Paweł Bylica via llvm-dev]

On Sun, Jun 19, 2016, 17:57 Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg at bec.de> wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 03:24:22PM +0000, Paweł Bylica via llvm-dev wrote:
> > Hi LLVM,
> >
> > I want to complain a bit about the quality of the code included in the
> > public LLVM headers. For projects that depend on LLVM is really hard to
> > just include LLVM headers not to trigger tons of warnings.
> >
> > Moreover, the is this issue that you have to define __STDC_LIMIT_MACROS
> and
> > __STDC_CONSTANT_MACROS everywhere just to include single DataTypes.h.
> > Strangely, it seems to be required only when compiling with clang, not
> with
> > GCC.
> >
> > Can we do anything to improve the situation?
> >
> > I have just one idea, to add unittests that only include public headers
> > with higher compiler restrictions than for LLVM code in .cpp files.
>
> Get a system with C++11 compliant system headers.
>

What do you mean exactly? How is this related?


> Joerg
>
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