From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28520 invoked by alias); 11 Jun 2013 09:39:37 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-bugs-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-bugs-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 28470 invoked by uid 48); 11 Jun 2013 09:39:32 -0000 From: "nmm1 at cam dot ac.uk" To: gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org Subject: [Bug libstdc++/51749] Including pollutes global namespace Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 09:39:00 -0000 X-Bugzilla-Reason: CC X-Bugzilla-Type: changed X-Bugzilla-Watch-Reason: None X-Bugzilla-Product: gcc X-Bugzilla-Component: libstdc++ X-Bugzilla-Version: 4.7.0 X-Bugzilla-Keywords: X-Bugzilla-Severity: normal X-Bugzilla-Who: nmm1 at cam dot ac.uk X-Bugzilla-Status: UNCONFIRMED X-Bugzilla-Priority: P3 X-Bugzilla-Assigned-To: unassigned at gcc dot gnu.org X-Bugzilla-Target-Milestone: --- X-Bugzilla-Flags: X-Bugzilla-Changed-Fields: Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Bugzilla-URL: http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/ Auto-Submitted: auto-generated MIME-Version: 1.0 X-SW-Source: 2013-06/txt/msg00533.txt.bz2 http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=51749 --- Comment #17 from Nick Maclaren --- I will just add to comment 8 that dumping large chunks of the POSIX namespace in isn't legal, unless WG21 have completely lost their marbles :-) But, as people have said, this isn't fixable by hacking - not least because it would have to be done in translation phase 4, not 8, so namespaces would not be a permissable tool. We shall have to wait for a proper fix.