[TUHS] compiling festoon
Dennis Ritchie
dmr at plan9.bell-labs.com
Sat Mar 8 16:30:08 AEST 2003
Norman observed (about conj):
> Since the problem is a new library function that appeared in
> the official header files in C99, it makes sense that newer
> versions of gcc object. That means that as time goes by, newer
> C compilers everywhere will probably pick up the change. Any
> documentation stored next to festoon.c should definitely point
> out the problem and its full generality.
> We'll leave aside for now the question of whether complex
> conjugation really ought to be public.
So far as I can tell from ISO/IEC 9899:1999,
the panoply of Complex macros and functions
are supposed to be enabled only after
#include <complex.h>
gcc looks to be overenthusiastic.
Dennis
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