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On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 12:24 AM, Father Chrysostomos via RT <perlbug-followup@perl.org> wrote: > On Thu Oct 24 19:55:58 2013, craig.a.berry@gmail.com wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Vincent Pit <perl@profvince.com> >> wrote: >> >> >> >> But people do manual builds with g++ fairly regularly as a stricter, >> >> trouble-seeking C. I think it's just that in the unusual case of >> >> bool, C is where the trouble is. >> >> >> > >> > I think you mean "stricter non-C". :) >> >> When you throw C code at a C++ compiler and it finds real problems >> that a C compiler didn't catch, then for all practical purposes it's a >> stricter C compiler. >> >> > The only legitimate use of a C++ compiler to build perl is to check >> > that the >> > headers are both valid C and C++. >> >> In that case, illegitimacy is more fun, or at least of more practical >> benefit. See paragraph 4 of >> <http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/07/msg174792.html>. > > OK, but could someone comment on my patch that makes even C++ have a C-style bool under -DDEBUGGING? :-) > A couple of comments: My understanding of the intent of stdbool.h is that its sole purpose is to define bool, true, and false properly. If we want to go this route, where DEBUGGING forces the traditional behavior, would it be clearer to have Configure unset I_STDBOOL if DEBUGGING was passed? The header file stdbool.h was added in C99 for the sole purpose of defining bool, true, and false. It was done as a header file rather than adding new keywords, so that any existing defines of those tokens didn't break, and anything that wanted the new C99 behavior for those files could just include stdbool.h - anything that wanted to maintain C89 compatibility could opt out of those three keywords by not including the stdbool.h header file. Incidentally, if we never included stdbool.h, we'd also be missing out on 'true' and 'false', which would catch a similar class of error (that only a smoke on George's VC6 caught when I made it). On another note, can anyone provide context as to why our final fallback to 'define bool char', except for VMS? Couldn't we just change *that* to be int everywhere, unless otherwise defined?Thread Previous | Thread Next