Defining _GNU_SOURCE hides the declaration of aligned_alloc
Yaakov Selkowitz
yselkowitz@cygwin.com
Wed Feb 3 03:15:00 GMT 2016
On 2016-02-02 16:27, Ken Brown wrote:
> The issue in the Subject line came up in connection with an emacs bug
> report.
>
> Here's a test case:
[snip]
> $ gcc test.c -Wimplicit-function-declaration
> test.c: In function âmainâ:
> test.c:7:3: warning: implicit declaration of function âaligned_allocâ
>
> The cause is that the declaration of aligned_alloc in stdlib.h is
> guarded by #if __ISO_C_VISIBLE >= 2011 || __cplusplus >= 201103L; but
> defining _GNU_SOURCE causes __ISO_C_VISIBLE to be defined as 1999.
> Here's an excerpt from /usr/include/sys/cdefs.h showing how this happens:
[snip]
> According to the discussion of the emacs bug I mentioned, Linux and
> FreeBSD don't have this issue. Should Cygwin's headers be changed to
> conform to those other platforms?
Yes, it should. I have added this to my queue of such fixes, which I
hope to post soon.
--
Yaakov
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