strtof is not defined anymore in std=c++11

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Apr  2 20:10, Jon TURNEY wrote:
> On 02/04/2013 13:00, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Apr  2 12:37, Laurent Alfonsi wrote:
> >> The strtof function is now rejected when selecting the gcc C++11
> >> standard option.
> >> This regression has been introduced in this patch
> >>     http://sourceware.org/ml/newlib/2012/msg00425.html
> >>
> >> J.Turney patch is fine regarding the C standard side, but when using
> >> from C++ :
> >>     $ cat a.cpp
> >>     #include <cstdlib>
> >>
> >>     float  f(const char *s, char **endptr) {
> >>       return strtof(s, endptr);
> >>     }
> >>
> >> It fails with the message :
> >>     $ g++ -std=c++11 a.cpp
> >>     a.cpp: In function 'float f(const char*, char**)':
> >>     a.cpp:3:30: error: 'strtof' was not declared in this scope
> >>
> >> Whereas this function strtof is well included in the cstdlib header
> >> file defined in C++11 ISO.
> >>
> >> Please advice.
> > 
> > Not sure.  Enabling c++11 implies defining __STRICT_ANSI__ with gcc.
> > Maybe we have to add something like this to the #if's guarding the
> > declarations:
> > 
> >   || (defined (__cplusplus) && __cplusplus >= 201103L)
> 
> Yes.  I think that all of the protoypes I touched: strtof(), strtoll(),
> strtoull() and strtold() need this attention.
> 
> As currently written, it doesn't test if __STDC_VERSION__ is defined (and so
> uses the assumed value of 0 when compiling C++), so do we actually need to
> test if __cplusplus is defined?
> 
> Would you like me to write a patch?

That would be nice!


Thanks,
Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Maintainer
Red Hat