Re: _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE

[Joseph Myers]

On Mon, 27 Feb 2017, Bruno Haible wrote:

> Does it mean that _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE now prevent some symbols
> from being declared?

No.

The effect of those macros used to be: declare getlogin_r.  Because 
getlogin_r is part of POSIX.1 (199506) and the default POSIX version in 
the glibc headers is 200809, this had no effect (getlogin_r was already 
declared) unless you defined _POSIX_SOURCE, or defined _POSIX_C_SOURCE to 
a value smaller than 199506, or defined another feature test macro for 
another such old standard version without getlogin_r, or used -ansi / 
-std=c89 / -std=c99 / -std=c11 without defining any feature test macro 
implying a 199506 or later value for _POSIX_C_SOURCE.

Now, the effect is to declare all POSIX.1 (199506) symbols rather than 
just getlogin_r.  They still have no effect unless you define feature test 
macros for an older standard, or select an ISO C conformance mode without 
defining feature test macros for a newer standard.  They still do not 
cause any functions not to be declared.

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Joseph S. Myers
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