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Fwd: A small issue with _GNU_SOURCE



Consider the following:

$ cat test.c
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

int main()
{
 long long i = random();
 return ffsll(i);
}

ffsll() is a GNU extension and should be prototyped when _GNU_SOURCE is defined.

random() is in SUSv2 and requires _XOPEN_SOURCE=500

$ gcc test.c -Wall -ansi -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=700
test.c: In function âmainâ:
test.c:8:2: warning: implicit declaration of function âffsllâ

This is correct

$ gcc test.c -Wall -ansi -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=700 -D_GNU_SOURCE
test.c: In function âmainâ:
test.c:8:2: warning: implicit declaration of function âffsllâ

This looks like a problem with newlib's sys/cdefs.h. _XOPEN_SOURCE causes _POSIX_C_SOURCE to be defined, which prevents _GNU_SOURCE from being considered.

$ gcc test.c -Wall -ansi -D_GNU_SOURCE
test.c: In function âmainâ:
test.c:7:2: warning: implicit declaration of function ârandomâ

_GNU_SOURCE is supposed to imply some value of _XOPEN_SOURCE, but only actually turns on __XSI_VISIBLE.

The patch I wrote for cygwin's stdlib.h [1] explicitly checks _XOPEN_SOURCE. Should this be a check for XSI_VISIBLE? or should cdefs.h also define _XOPEN_SOURCE (and all the other feature test macros that _GNU_SOURCE is defined to be equivalent to)?

[1] https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-patches/2013-q4/msg00004.html


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