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From: "Hans-Bernhard Bröker" <HBBroeker@t-online.de>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Why does -std=c++11 hide certain function calls
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2018 18:46:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55fcf4b3-5fd0-8fa1-6669-5a93a14c863e@t-online.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJn6YFD-zJoH4wtDaRq1EYYLwzWv_EYFWLGm+quj_RobFMv2Dg@mail.gmail.com>

Am 05.09.2018 um 07:55 schrieb John Selbie:

> With this: g++ foo.cpp -c -std=c++11
> It compiles fine everywhere else, except CygWin.  Output on Cygwin:

I'm afraid that may mean everywhere else is wrong.

> Yes, switching to -std=gnu++11 or adding  -D_DEFAULT_SOURCE to the command
> line line works.
> 
> But I don't understand why the need to enforce these extensions to get
> access to some of the most common unix libraries? 

Because that's what std=c++11 is meant and documented to do.  It turns 
off all extensions to the standard language.  And yes, that does include 
extensions to the standard libary, up to and including POSIX-specific 
content.

For what you want to do, std=c++11 is simply the wrong setting.

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  reply	other threads:[~2018-09-05 18:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-05  5:56 John Selbie
2018-09-05 18:46 ` Hans-Bernhard Bröker [this message]
2018-09-05 19:36   ` John Selbie
2018-09-05 20:41     ` Brian Inglis
2018-09-06  0:14       ` Doug Henderson
2018-09-06  6:45       ` John Selbie
2018-09-06  9:18         ` Csaba Raduly
2018-09-06 14:07         ` Jeffrey Walton

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