"austern at apple dot com" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | So what to do about this? In principle, I think the answer is that | builtin_function is doing something wrong by calling | builtin_function_1 twice, once for the global namespace and once for | namespace std. If we really must define all builtins in namespace | std (what's the rationale?), then at least we should do it with a | using-declaration instead of creating two entirely separate decls. | This would help compile
I believe what happened there is that it was an attempt to implement the standard mandated semantics where names in <xxx.h> appears to be using-declarations for names in <cxx> -- except that the actual implementation gets everything wrong :-/ So the idea was that we get an artificial declaration in both :: and std::. If we actually write a decl in std::, that is it; same if we write it in ::. Except that the artificial declaration in :: should have been a using-declaration for the "real" artificial declaration in std::. And attributes and whatever should apply transparently to both -- because they have extern "C" language specification. That is what failed. -- Gaby
