[PATCH v2 2/2] libc/features.h: Make code match documentation

Corinna Vinschen vinschen@redhat.com
Wed Nov 19 11:15:40 GMT 2025


On Nov 15 00:26, Simon Barth wrote:
> The documentation states that _GNU_SOURCE enables "all of the above
> plus GNU extensions.". Furthermore the documentation states that
> _DEFAULT_SOURCE would enable POSIX-1.2008 with BSD and SVr4 extensions.
> 
> The code did different things though:
> 
> * For _GNU_SOURCE it only enabled POSIX.1-2008 but it should have been the
>   highest available one, POSIX.1-2024.
> * For _DEFAULT_SOURCE it enabled POSIX.1-2024.
> 
> Let's use the highest available POSIX standard possible and fix
> documentation where necessary.
> ---
>  newlib/libc/include/sys/features.h | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/newlib/libc/include/sys/features.h b/newlib/libc/include/sys/features.h
> index 2a5da45ab..f0f5286ac 100644
> --- a/newlib/libc/include/sys/features.h
> +++ b/newlib/libc/include/sys/features.h
> @@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ extern "C" {
>   * _BSD_SOURCE (deprecated by _DEFAULT_SOURCE)
>   * _SVID_SOURCE (deprecated by _DEFAULT_SOURCE)
>   * _DEFAULT_SOURCE (or none of the above)
> - *	POSIX-1.2008 with BSD and SVr4 extensions
> + *	POSIX.1-2024 with BSD and SVr4 extensions
>   *
>   * _FORTIFY_SOURCE = 1, 2 or 3
>   *	Object Size Checking function wrappers
> @@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ extern "C" {
>  #undef _POSIX_SOURCE
>  #define	_POSIX_SOURCE		1
>  #undef _POSIX_C_SOURCE
> -#define	_POSIX_C_SOURCE		200809L
> +#define	_POSIX_C_SOURCE		202405L
>  #undef _XOPEN_SOURCE
>  #define	_XOPEN_SOURCE		700
>  #undef _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
> -- 
> 2.51.2

That was the intention anyway, so this is fine. Pushed.

Thanks,
Corinna



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