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Sometime soon we'll have gcc 4.4 in rawhide as the new system compiler.
This alone might bring with it changes in the C++ language acceptance
(I don't know details).
What I want to warn people about is another change which will come in
combination with the next glibc. For a long time some of the function
prototypes for string functions you get when including <cstring> and
<cwchar> (or the underlying C headers) are wrong. Only for C++, C is
not affected.
char *strchr (const char *, int)
should be
char *strchr (char *, int)
and
const char *strchr (const char *, int)
I.e., the const is preserved correctly.
The result of this that some incorrect programs might not compile
anymore. For strchr this might look like this:
int foo (const char *s)
{
char *p = strchr (s, 'f');
return p == 0 || p[1] == '\0';
}
Previously this worked fine. strchr returned a value of type char*.
Now, and correctly, it returned a const char*. But in C++ assigning a
const T* value to a T* variable is an *error* (not a cause for a warning).
I expect the fixes are simple in most cases. Don't just use casts, use
correct types for the variables etc. This type safety helps to
eliminate bugs in the code.
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➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖
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