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Subject:    Re: -ansi and the default CXX flags (was Re: [PATCH 1/3] Pass additional gcc compiler flags regardle
From:       Alexander Neundorf <neundorf () kde ! org>
Date:       2012-08-16 19:48:32
Message-ID: 201208162148.33220.neundorf () kde ! org
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On Thursday 16 August 2012, Raphael Kubo da Costa wrote:
> Raphael Kubo da Costa <rakuco@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> > Today I felt like doing some archeology work, and it looks like this
> > separation between the Linux/non-Linux case was added in SVN r501434
> > [1], when FindKDE4.cmake was still in kdesdk. At the time, strtoll(3)
> > failed on FreeBSD when -ansi was passed, and the behavior remains the
> > same to this day. It looks correct to me: to gcc, -ansi means C90 for C
> > files and C++98 for C++ files, strtoll is part of C99 and is only
> > available on Linux with -ansi because gcc/libstdc++ define _GNU_SOURCE
> > by default.
> > 
> > Looking even further back in time, -ansi seems to have been originally
> > added by coolo to acinclude.m4.in in r50947 [2] only for glibc and when
> > building in debug mode.
> > 
> > I see two options here: either go back to adding -ansi only for Linux
> > (and making all the other flags common to all systems using gcc), or
> > just dropping -ansi altogether and using the same flags for all systems.
> > 
> > Thoughts?
> > 
> > [1] http://websvn.kde.org/?view=revision&revision=501434
> > [2] http://websvn.kde.org/?view=revision&revision=50947
> 
> Alex, do you have an opinion on this?

Not really, how much will break when changing this ?

Dropping -ansi doesn't sound too bad to me...

Alex


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