Problem with ctype.h

Zack Weinberg zack@rabi.columbia.edu
Mon Oct 26 15:28:00 GMT 1998


On Mon, 26 Oct 1998 14:52:15 -0800 (PST), H.J. Lu wrote:
>> 
>> > > 
>> > > > The question is if 1003.1-1996 allows everything in 
>> > > > <bits/pthreadtypes.h> to be included in <ctype.h>. 
>> > > 
>> > > I think it does, but only because its allowance is so broad.
>> > > ANSI/ISO C definitely does not allow it.
>> > 
>> > If that is the case, VSX-PCT is right to fail glibc on
>> > 
>> > # gcc -ansi -D_POSIX_SOURCE
>> 
>> Incorrect.  It should not be using -D_POSIX_SOURCE to test ANSI/ISO C
>> conformance, only to test POSIX conformance.  It should use gcc -ansi -pedan
>tic
>> test to test ANSI/ISO C conformance.
>
>I added -ansi to get rid of "unix". Or should I just ignore the
>failure on "unix"?

Try -undef, or -undef -D__STRICT_ANSI__.

zw



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