On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 4:54 PM, Jan de Groot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 2008-03-09 at 22:52 +0200, Roman Kyrylych wrote: > > Huh? We need to patch a lot of C++ source code that relies on C > > includes? > > Functions like malloc, strlen, strcpy, etc need C includes. The offended > packages don't include these files, which is known to fail on GCC 4.3. > Older compilers include the required headers via other included headers > somehow, so these programs don't look broken on older compilers. The > example I showed is the common way to fix these packages when we run > into them.
To be clear, the C++ standard specifies what functions MUST be part of a given include, but allow any other functions/symbols to also be included. This is actually the main reason why "using namespace std" is discouraged for beginners - because any header could import an ungodly amount of symbols into the global namespace by doing that. So yeah, it sounds like they cleaned things up and now improper C++ code breaks. It's a good thing, if you ask me.
