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Re: selective linking of floating point support for *printf / *scanf
- From: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
- To: Joey Ye <joey dot ye dot cc at gmail dot com>
- Cc: GCC <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>, avr-libc-dev at nongnu dot org, "newlib at sourceware dot org" <newlib at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 09:40:20 +0100
- Subject: Re: selective linking of floating point support for *printf / *scanf
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On 09/02/2014 08:33 AM, Joey Ye wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 12:26 PM, Thomas Preud'homme
> <thomas.preudhomme@arm.com> wrote:
>>> From: Grissiom [mailto:chaos.proton@gmail.com]
>>> Sent: Friday, August 29, 2014 11:51 PM
>>>
>>> Yes, it does. The namespace reserved for the implementation is _[_A-Z].
>> > The namespace _[a-z] is still available for the user. Which means the
>>> user can declare their own _printf_float, and WE (as the implementation)
>>> MUST NOT INTERFERE with it. Since WE are the implementation, we should
>>> use the namespace reserved for us, namely __printf_float.
>>
>> Mmmh indeed. I checked C99 and section 7.1.3 paragraph 1 third clause states:
>>
>> "All identifiers that begin with an underscore and either an uppercase letter or
>> another underscore are always reserved for any use."
>>
>> Next clause express how single underscore not followed by a capital letter is
>> reserved:
>>
>> "All identifiers that begin with an underscore are always reserved for use as identifiers
>> with file scope in both the ordinary and tag name spaces."
>
> Apparently newlib is not following this specification very well, as
> there are symbols like _abc_r defined every where in current newlib.
newlib is part of the implementation, so it's allowed to do this.
Andrew.