Re: new module 'c++defs'

[John W. Eaton]

On  6-Mar-2010, Bruno Haible wrote:

| John W. Eaton wrote:
| > How can one easily find all the places where the GNULIB_NAMESPACE tag
| > is needed?  Is there some way we can get the compiler to help with
| > this job?
| 
| Good point. I'm adding a macro _GL_CXXALIASWARN, so that a warning will
| be emitted:
| 
|   foo.cc: In function ‘int main()’:
|   foo.cc:21: warning: call to ‘open’ declared with attribute warning: The 
symbol ::open refers to the system function. Use gnulib::open instead.

Will this warning happen on all systems when a module is used, or just
when the replacement function is needed?  For example, if I'm doing
development on a GNU system that doesn't need many replacement
functions, will I see the warnings, or will I only know about these
problems once someone attempts a build on a system like Windows that
actually needs the replacement functions?  How does this macro avoid
causing trouble with things like myclass::open?  I guess I would
have a better understanding if I could see your latest version of the
code.  Are your updated changes available somewhere for testing?

| > Is there some reason to not add using directives in the gnulib
| > headers for each system function that is placed in the gnulib::
| > namespace?
| > Oh, now I remember that doing this requires placing the system headers
| > inside a namespace, and I guess that could cause some trouble.  But
| > would you be interested in trying it?  I could do the testing and help
| > with making the required changes.
| 
| You can try it. But I doubt that you will get to a portable solution
| this way, because of differences between various C++ compilers.

OK.  It's not that important to me to attempt this as long as there is
some way to be notified when a symbol is used and needs to be tagged
with the namespace.

Thanks,

jwe