RE: Problem with exit() and new version of gcc.

[Bernard Dautrevaux]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alexandre Oliva [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Monday, December 18, 2000 8:47 AM
> To: Pavel Roskin
> Cc: Assar Westerlund; Mo DeJong; address@hidden
> Subject: Re: Problem with exit() and new version of gcc.
> 
> 
> On Dec 18, 2000, Pavel Roskin <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> >                    No declaration   stdlib.h   Simple   Using throw
> > egcs-1.1.2             Ok              Ok        Ok         Ok
> > gcc-2.95.2             Ok              Ok        Ok         Ok
> > gcc-2.97               Ok              Ok       Not Ok      Ok
> 
> > Can anybody continue? How about commercial compilers?
> 
> Unfortunately, it's not just a matter of the compiler in use.  IIRC,
> stdlib.h isn't supplied by GCC, it's part of the C library, so we'd
> have to test each different OS :-(
> 
> > Otherwise we should check what declaration if preferred for 
> the given
> > compiler and use it.
> 
> It seems to me that the only safe way to go is to test first :-(


Yep; and anyway this test is even needed to write portable C++ code, so
Autoconf should provide it, as it obviously *needs* it :-)

> 
> Fortunately, we don't have to worry about std::exit(int), since
> stdlib.h, unlike cstdlib, must bring std::exit(int) into the global
> namespace.

Regards,

        Bernard

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