libstc++ and locale issue

[Denys Vlasenko]

On Thursday 12 February 2009 09:11, Carmelo AMOROSO wrote:
> Khem Raj wrote:
> > On (11/02/09 18:29), Carmelo AMOROSO wrote:
> >> I can see three different solutions
> >>
> >> 1) remove the #ifdef _LIBC from within bits/uClibc_locale.h
> >
> > if possible this would be good.
> >
> >> or
> >> 2)if possible, we should not sanitise this header
> >> or
> >> 3) change #ifdef _LIBC to something different (i.e. _LIBSTDCPP)
> >> and change the libstdc++ to explicitly set this new macro before
> >> including <locale>
> >>
> >> 3) it's almost identical to 1) and requires another extra change
> >>
> >> What do you guys think about ?
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Carmelo
> >
> Or I could think to add another target in the Makefile
> to install not sanitised uclibc headers for building
> toolchains and what else strictly correlated to the uclibc internals,
> and install on running system only the sanitised version.
> Does it make more sense ?

Oh no. Yet another set of headers?

I think sanitized headers should contain everything anyone needs.

But if "anyone" is a patched version of gcc and patch
simply uses uclibc internals (which were leaking through
non-sanitized headers) instead of using public interface,
that is a badly written patch.
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