Importing cacoshl.c and its dependent methos,

[Sebastian Huber]

On 21/06/17 17:02, Craig Howland wrote:

> On 06/21/2017 08:04 AM, aditya upadhyay wrote:
>> So ,To not rely on stdbool.h from c99,  do i have to port stdbool.h 
>> here also ?
>> Otherwise we can use
>>   #ifndef __cplusplus
>>   typedef enum { false, true } bool;
>>   #endif
>>
>> Thanks a lot for your suggested modification. I am applying the
>> required the modification.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Aditya Upadhyay
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 1:58 PM, Corinna Vinschen 
>> <vinschen@redhat.com> wrote:
>>> On Jun 21 08:46, Sebastian Huber wrote:
>>>> On 21/06/17 04:24, aditya upadhyay wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello Developers,
>>>>> In cacoshl.c, There is a dependency between cacoshl.c and csqrtl.c.
>>>>> In ported csqrtl.c from NetBSD,  stdbool.h is there,  But i saw there
>>>>> is no stdbool.h.
>>>>>
>>>>> So for bool data type, I have used enum. Is it a right way or not.
>>>>> please suggest or do i have to use stdbool.h from gcc library ?
>>>> <stdbool.h> is currently not used by Newlib. I am not sure if we 
>>>> should add
>>>> this dependency if its only needed by csqrtl.c (in overall NetBSD 
>>>> libm) and
>>>> not visible to the user.
>>>>
>>>> I would replace the #include <stdbool.h> with
>>>>
>>>> #ifndef __cplusplus
>>>> typedef enum { false, true } bool;
>>>> #endif
>>>>
>>>>   and keep the rest of the code unchanged.
>>> Wait.  Isn't stdbool.h available in gcc for ages?  When building 
>>> newlib,
>>> shouldn't we be able to rely on c99 being available?
>>>
>>>
>>> Corinna
>>>
> Yes, we can, and should.  That's because complex.h and stdbool.h were 
> added in C99, making C99 required for these functions.  I did a quick 
> check on some older cross-compiler installs that I have, and GCC 4.1.1 
> has stdbool.h (and 4.6.4 has complex.h).
> Craig

Yes, since <complex.h> is C99 it makes sense to use <stdbool.h> as well. 
In GCC the <stdbool.h> is available since 1998.

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