On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, Marc Aurele La France wrote: > Redirected from xfree86@ to devel@, where this belongs. > > On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Kelledin wrote: > > On Thursday 19 February 2004 03:42 pm, Marc Aurele La France wrote: > > > Secondly (and perhaps more to the point), is that <stdbool.h> > > > is a very recent (glibc-wise) invention (read: bleeding edge). > > > So, in your shoes, I'd first talk to the glibc people about > > > the implications of an stdbool.h in the first place. > > > Not that bleeding edge. stdbool.h is part of gcc and has been > > around since stock 2.95.3 (possibly earlier as well). 2.95.3 > > is...downright ancient, at least in software terms. > > Ooops, right. I was only looking at /usr/include. > > Anyway, some versions of ncurses #undef bool just after #include'ing > <stdbool.h>. Thomas Dickey, ncurses developer, is on this list, so if > he's reading this, he probably has some suggestions.
I overlooked the beginning of the thread. stdbool.h is a C99 file, which is fine. But defining "bool" in that file is a gcc-ism. Both gcc's stdbool.h and ncurses.h are trying to solve the same problem (though ncurses.h has a more valid reason - "bool" is a documented part of X/Open curses, gcc is doing it solely as an extension). In current ncurses (5.4), I don't have an undef for bool following stdbool.h -- there was an undef in the version from last spring. That was to work around (no surprise) a conflict on BeOS with inconsistent definitions of bool. If gcc hadn't added that definition to stdbool.h the #undef wouldn't have been needed. I don't see the original comment on the mail archive - but have the impression that he's trying to use some definition that relies on the bogus "bool" from stdbool.h - So I guess the best recommendation is that he should update to the regular release version of ncurses rather than one of the development versions. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
