From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
To: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Remove true/false from GDB ....
Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2002 15:31:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C645FE0.30201@cygnus.com> (raw)
Hello,
This is fallout from the recent <stdbool.h> problem.
"bfd.h" was providing ``true'' and ``false'' as convenience
enums/macros/... They unfortunatly clash with systems that provide
<stdbool.h> (a header in c99?) and even some systems that don't. The
relevant code block is:
/* I'm sure this is going to break something and someone is going to
force me to change it. */
/* typedef enum boolean {false, true} boolean; */
/* Yup, SVR4 has a "typedef enum boolean" in <sys/types.h> -fnf */
/* It gets worse if the host also defines a true/false enum... -sts */
/* And even worse if your compiler has built-in boolean types... -law */
/* And even worse if your compiler provides a stdbool.h that conflicts
with these definitions... gcc 2.95 and later do. If so, it must
be included first. -drow */
#if ...
... many valiant attemts to define true and false ...
#else
/* Use enum names that will appear nowhere else. */
typedef enum bfd_boolean {bfd_fffalse, bfd_tttrue} boolean;
#endif
In short, bfd.h should never have been polluting the name space with
``true'' and ``false''.
So the proposal is for "bfd.h" to remove all the above code and instead
just define:
typedef int bfd_boolean;
i.e. 0 is false, non-zero is true, just like C intended :-)
Problem is, some blocks of GDB make use of ``true'' and ``false'' and
they will need to be changed. Two possabilities come to mind:
#include "gdb_stdbool.h"
which would wrap <stdbool.h>
zap ``true'' and ``false''
I've strong preferences for the latter. I think BFD serves as a very
compelling example of what not to do :-)
thoughts?
I should also note that there is some urgency to this - BFD needs to be
fixed quickly - preferably before 5.2 of GDB branches.
enjoy,
Andrew
next reply other threads:[~2002-02-08 23:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-08 15:31 Andrew Cagney [this message]
2002-02-08 15:37 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-02-08 15:55 ` Kevin Buettner
2002-02-08 22:03 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-02-09 8:44 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-02-12 22:21 ` Andrew Cagney
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