From: Jonathan Wakely <jwakely@redhat.com>
To: Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@gmail.com>
Cc: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com>,
"gcc@gcc.gnu.org" <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>,
libstdc++ <libstdc++@gcc.gnu.org>,
gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: libstdc++-v3/doc/xml/manual/backwards_compatibility.xml
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2021 16:37:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210413153758.GM3008@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210413153704.GL3008@redhat.com>
On 13/04/21 16:37 +0100, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
>On 13/04/21 16:19 +0100, Jonathan Wakely via Libstdc++ wrote:
>>Sorry for the slow reply ...
>>
>>On Mon, 1 Feb 2021 at 22:59, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
>>>
>>>I noticed this section on "Backwards Compatibility" in the libstdc++
>>>docs that talks about
>>>
>>> - glibc 2.0.x
>>> - GCC 3.2 (August 2002)
>>> - GCC 4.1 (February 2006)
>>>
>>>and links to "Migrating to GCC 4.1" and "Migration guide for GCC-3.2"
>>>documents.
>>>
>>>Does this still make sense (and serve real users or developers) or
>>>should this be trimmed quite a bit?
>>
>>Yeah, that (and a lot more) should be trimmed from the libstdc++
>>manual. It's just time consuming to do it.
>
>It turned out to be pretty easy in this case, as the ancient text was
>so obviously useless now that it can just be ripped out.
>
>The remaining parts of the page should probably be evaluated too, but
>at least the truly prehistoric stuff is gone with this patch.
>
>Pushed to trunk.
Oops, I meant to change gcc@ to gcc-patches@ before sending, sorry for
the noise on the main list.
>commit 989e512f719a44fafca0030d7b8a1f5bf5f1baf7
>Author: Jonathan Wakely <jwakely@redhat.com>
>Date: Tue Apr 13 16:30:16 2021
>
> libstdc++: Remove outdated docs on libg++ and libstdc++-v2
>
> The libstdc++-v3 manual doesn't need to document how to use its
> predecessors.
>
> libstdc++-v3/ChangeLog:
>
> * doc/xml/manual/backwards_compatibility.xml: Remove porting
> notes for libg++ and libstdc++-v2, and bibliography.
> * doc/html/*: Regenerated.
>
>diff --git a/libstdc++-v3/doc/xml/manual/backwards_compatibility.xml b/libstdc++-v3/doc/xml/manual/backwards_compatibility.xml
>index cce553380e1..6a4a5ccedfb 100644
>--- a/libstdc++-v3/doc/xml/manual/backwards_compatibility.xml
>+++ b/libstdc++-v3/doc/xml/manual/backwards_compatibility.xml
>@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ dinosaur.
>
> <para>Some background: libg++ was designed and created when there was no
> ISO standard to provide guidance. Classes like linked lists are now
>-provided for by <classname>list<T></classname> and do not need to be
>+provided for by <classname>std::list<T></classname> and do not need to be
> created by <function>genclass</function>. (For that matter, templates exist
> now and are well-supported, whereas genclass (mostly) predates them.)
> </para>
>@@ -34,41 +34,13 @@ Committee couldn't include everything, and so a lot of those
> <quote>obvious</quote> classes didn't get included.
> </para>
>
>-<para>Known Issues include many of the limitations of its immediate ancestor.</para>
>-
>-<para>Portability notes and known implementation limitations are as follows.</para>
>-
>-<section xml:id="backwards.first.ios_base"><info><title>No <code>ios_base</code></title></info>
>-
>-
>-<para> At least some older implementations don't have <code>std::ios_base</code>, so you should use <code>std::ios::badbit</code>, <code>std::ios::failbit</code> and <code>std::ios::eofbit</code> and <code>std::ios::goodbit</code>.
>+<para>That project is no longer maintained or supported, and the sources
>+archived. For the desperate, the
>+<link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="https://ftp.gnu.org/old-gnu/libg++/">ftp.gnu.org</link>
>+server still has the libg++ source.
> </para>
> </section>
>
>-<section xml:id="backwards.first.cout_cin"><info><title>No <code>cout</code> in <filename class="headerfile"><ostream.h></filename>, no <code>cin</code> in <filename class="headerfile"><istream.h></filename></title></info>
>-
>-
>-<para>
>- In earlier versions of the standard,
>- <filename class="headerfile"><fstream.h></filename>,
>- <filename class="headerfile"><ostream.h></filename>
>- and <filename class="headerfile"><istream.h></filename>
>- used to define
>- <code>cout</code>, <code>cin</code> and so on. ISO C++ specifies that one needs to include
>- <filename class="headerfile"><iostream></filename>
>- explicitly to get the required definitions.
>- </para>
>-<para> Some include adjustment may be required.</para>
>-
>-<para>This project is no longer maintained or supported, and the sources
>-archived. For the desperate,
>-the <link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://gcc.gnu.org/extensions.html">GCC extensions
>-page</link> describes where to find the last libg++ source. The code is
>-considered replaced and rewritten.
>-</para>
>-</section>
>-</section>
>-
> <section xml:id="backwards.second"><info><title>Second</title></info>
>
>
>@@ -80,504 +52,14 @@ considered replaced and rewritten.
> </para>
>
> <para>
>- The STL portions of this library are based on SGI/HP STL release 3.11.
>+ The STL portions of that library are based on SGI/HP STL release 3.11.
> </para>
>
> <para>
>- This project is no longer maintained or supported, and the sources
>- archived. The code is considered replaced and rewritten.
>+ That project is no longer maintained or supported, and the sources
>+ archived. The code was replaced and rewritten for libstdc++-v3.
> </para>
>
>-<para>
>- Portability notes and known implementation limitations are as follows.
>-</para>
>-
>-<section xml:id="backwards.second.std"><info><title>Namespace <code>std::</code> not supported</title></info>
>-
>-
>- <para>
>- Some care is required to support C++ compiler and or library
>- implementation that do not have the standard library in
>- <code>namespace std</code>.
>- </para>
>-
>- <para>
>- The following sections list some possible solutions to support compilers
>- that cannot ignore <code>std::</code>-qualified names.
>- </para>
>-
>- <para>
>- First, see if the compiler has a flag for this. Namespace
>- back-portability-issues are generally not a problem for g++
>- compilers that do not have libstdc++ in <code>std::</code>, as the
>- compilers use <option>-fno-honor-std</option> (ignore
>- <code>std::</code>, <code>:: = std::</code>) by default. That is,
>- the responsibility for enabling or disabling <code>std::</code> is
>- on the user; the maintainer does not have to care about it. This
>- probably applies to some other compilers as well.
>- </para>
>-
>- <para>
>- Second, experiment with a variety of pre-processor tricks.
>- </para>
>-
>- <para>
>- By defining <code>std</code> as a macro, fully-qualified namespace
>- calls become global. Volia.
>- </para>
>-
>-<programlisting>
>-#ifdef WICKEDLY_OLD_COMPILER
>-# define std
>-#endif
>-</programlisting>
>-
>- <para>
>- Thanks to Juergen Heinzl who posted this solution on gnu.gcc.help.
>- </para>
>-
>- <para>
>- Another pre-processor based approach is to define a macro
>- <code>NAMESPACE_STD</code>, which is defined to either
>- <quote> </quote> or <quote>std</quote> based on a compile-type
>- test. On GNU systems, this can be done with autotools by means of
>- an autoconf test (see below) for <code>HAVE_NAMESPACE_STD</code>,
>- then using that to set a value for the <code>NAMESPACE_STD</code>
>- macro. At that point, one is able to use
>- <code>NAMESPACE_STD::string</code>, which will evaluate to
>- <code>std::string</code> or <code>::string</code> (i.e., in the
>- global namespace on systems that do not put <code>string</code> in
>- <code>std::</code>).
>- </para>
>-
>-<programlisting>
>-dnl @synopsis AC_CXX_NAMESPACE_STD
>-dnl
>-dnl If the compiler supports namespace std, define
>-dnl HAVE_NAMESPACE_STD.
>-dnl
>-dnl @category Cxx
>-dnl @author Todd Veldhuizen
>-dnl @author Luc Maisonobe <luc@spaceroots.org>
>-dnl @version 2004-02-04
>-dnl @license AllPermissive
>-AC_DEFUN([AC_CXX_NAMESPACE_STD], [
>- AC_CACHE_CHECK(if g++ supports namespace std,
>- ac_cv_cxx_have_std_namespace,
>- [AC_LANG_SAVE
>- AC_LANG_CPLUSPLUS
>- AC_TRY_COMPILE([#include <iostream>
>- std::istream& is = std::cin;],,
>- ac_cv_cxx_have_std_namespace=yes, ac_cv_cxx_have_std_namespace=no)
>- AC_LANG_RESTORE
>- ])
>- if test "$ac_cv_cxx_have_std_namespace" = yes; then
>- AC_DEFINE(HAVE_NAMESPACE_STD,,[Define if g++ supports namespace std. ])
>- fi
>-])
>-</programlisting>
>-</section>
>-
>-<section xml:id="backwards.second.iterators"><info><title>Illegal iterator usage</title></info>
>-
>-<para>
>- The following illustrate implementation-allowed illegal iterator
>- use, and then correct use.
>-</para>
>-
>-<itemizedlist>
>- <listitem>
>- <para>
>- you cannot do <code>ostream::operator<<(iterator)</code>
>- to print the address of the iterator => use
>- <code>operator<< &*iterator</code> instead
>- </para>
>- </listitem>
>- <listitem>
>- <para>
>- you cannot clear an iterator's reference (<code>iterator =
>- 0</code>) => use <code>iterator = iterator_type();</code>
>- </para>
>- </listitem>
>- <listitem>
>- <para>
>- <code>if (iterator)</code> won't work any more => use
>- <code>if (iterator != iterator_type())</code>
>- </para>
>- </listitem>
>-</itemizedlist>
>-</section>
>-
>-<section xml:id="backwards.second.isspace"><info><title><code>isspace</code> from <filename class="headerfile"><cctype></filename> is a macro
>- </title></info>
>-
>-
>- <para>
>- Glibc 2.0.x and 2.1.x define <filename class="headerfile"><ctype.h></filename> functionality as macros
>- (isspace, isalpha etc.).
>- </para>
>-
>- <para>
>- This implementations of libstdc++, however, keep these functions
>- as macros, and so it is not back-portable to use fully qualified
>- names. For example:
>- </para>
>-
>-<programlisting>
>-#include <cctype>
>-int main() { std::isspace('X'); }
>-</programlisting>
>-
>-<para>
>- Results in something like this:
>-</para>
>-
>-<programlisting>
>-std:: (__ctype_b[(int) ( ( 'X' ) )] & (unsigned short int) _ISspace ) ;
>-</programlisting>
>-
>-<para>
>- A solution is to modify a header-file so that the compiler tells
>- <filename class="headerfile"><ctype.h></filename> to define functions
>- instead of macros:
>-</para>
>-
>-<programlisting>
>-// This keeps isalnum, et al from being propagated as macros.
>-#if __linux__
>-# define __NO_CTYPE 1
>-#endif
>-</programlisting>
>-
>-<para>
>- Then, include <filename class="headerfile"><ctype.h></filename>
>-</para>
>-
>-<para>
>- Another problem arises if you put a <code>using namespace
>- std;</code> declaration at the top, and include
>- <filename class="headerfile"><ctype.h></filename>. This will
>- result in ambiguities between the definitions in the global namespace
>- (<filename class="headerfile"><ctype.h></filename>) and the
>- definitions in namespace <code>std::</code>
>- (<code><cctype></code>).
>-</para>
>-</section>
>-
>-<section xml:id="backwards.second.at"><info><title>No <code>vector::at</code>, <code>deque::at</code>, <code>string::at</code></title></info>
>-
>-
>-<para>
>- One solution is to add an autoconf-test for this:
>-</para>
>-
>-<programlisting>
>-AC_MSG_CHECKING(for container::at)
>-AC_TRY_COMPILE(
>-[
>-#include <vector>
>-#include <deque>
>-#include <string>
>-
>-using namespace std;
>-],
>-[
>-deque<int> test_deque(3);
>-test_deque.at(2);
>-vector<int> test_vector(2);
>-test_vector.at(1);
>-string test_string(<quote>test_string</quote>);
>-test_string.at(3);
>-],
>-[AC_MSG_RESULT(yes)
>-AC_DEFINE(HAVE_CONTAINER_AT)],
>-[AC_MSG_RESULT(no)])
>-</programlisting>
>-
>-<para>
>- If you are using other (non-GNU) compilers it might be a good idea
>- to check for <code>string::at</code> separately.
>-</para>
>-
>-</section>
>-
>-<section xml:id="backwards.second.eof"><info><title>No <code>std::char_traits<char>::eof</code></title></info>
>-
>-
>-<para>
>- Use some kind of autoconf test, plus this:
>-</para>
>-
>-<programlisting>
>-#ifdef HAVE_CHAR_TRAITS
>-#define CPP_EOF std::char_traits<char>::eof()
>-#else
>-#define CPP_EOF EOF
>-#endif
>-</programlisting>
>-
>-</section>
>-
>-<section xml:id="backwards.second.stringclear"><info><title>No <code>string::clear</code></title></info>
>-
>-
>-<para>
>- There are two functions for deleting the contents of a string:
>- <code>clear</code> and <code>erase</code> (the latter returns the
>- string).
>-</para>
>-
>-<programlisting>
>-void
>-clear() { _M_mutate(0, this->size(), 0); }
>-</programlisting>
>-
>-<programlisting>
>-basic_string&
>-erase(size_type __pos = 0, size_type __n = npos)
>-{
>- return this->replace(_M_check(__pos), _M_fold(__pos, __n),
>- _M_data(), _M_data());
>-}
>-</programlisting>
>-
>-<para>
>- Unfortunately, <code>clear</code> is not implemented in this
>- version, so you should use <code>erase</code> (which is probably
>- faster than <code>operator=(charT*)</code>).
>-</para>
>-</section>
>-
>-<section xml:id="backwards.second.ostreamform_istreamscan"><info><title>
>- Removal of <code>ostream::form</code> and <code>istream::scan</code>
>- extensions
>-</title></info>
>-
>-
>-<para>
>- These are no longer supported. Please use stringstreams instead.
>-</para>
>-</section>
>-
>-<section xml:id="backwards.second.stringstreams"><info><title>No <code>basic_stringbuf</code>, <code>basic_stringstream</code></title></info>
>-
>-
>-<para>
>- Although the ISO standard <code>i/ostringstream</code>-classes are
>- provided, (<filename class="headerfile"><sstream></filename>), for
>- compatibility with older implementations the pre-ISO
>- <code>i/ostrstream</code> (<filename class="headerfile"><strstream></filename>) interface is also provided,
>- with these caveats:
>-</para>
>-
>-<itemizedlist>
>- <listitem>
>- <para>
>- <code>strstream</code> is considered to be deprecated
>- </para>
>- </listitem>
>- <listitem>
>- <para>
>- <code>strstream</code> is limited to <code>char</code>
>- </para>
>- </listitem>
>- <listitem>
>- <para>
>- with <code>ostringstream</code> you don't have to take care of
>- terminating the string or freeing its memory
>- </para>
>- </listitem>
>- <listitem>
>- <para>
>- <code>istringstream</code> can be re-filled (clear();
>- str(input);)
>- </para>
>- </listitem>
>-</itemizedlist>
>-
>-<para>
>- You can then use output-stringstreams like this:
>-</para>
>-
>-<programlisting>
>-#ifdef HAVE_SSTREAM
>-# include <sstream>
>-#else
>-# include <strstream>
>-#endif
>-
>-#ifdef HAVE_SSTREAM
>- std::ostringstream oss;
>-#else
>- std::ostrstream oss;
>-#endif
>-
>-oss << "Name=" << m_name << ", number=" << m_number << std::endl;
>-...
>-#ifndef HAVE_SSTREAM
>- oss << std::ends; // terminate the char*-string
>-#endif
>-
>-// str() returns char* for ostrstream and a string for ostringstream
>-// this also causes ostrstream to think that the buffer's memory
>-// is yours
>-m_label.set_text(oss.str());
>-#ifndef HAVE_SSTREAM
>- // let the ostrstream take care of freeing the memory
>- oss.freeze(false);
>-#endif
>-</programlisting>
>-
>-<para>
>- Input-stringstreams can be used similarly:
>-</para>
>-
>-<programlisting>
>-std::string input;
>-...
>-#ifdef HAVE_SSTREAM
>-std::istringstream iss(input);
>-#else
>-std::istrstream iss(input.c_str());
>-#endif
>-
>-int i;
>-iss >> i;
>-</programlisting>
>-
>-<para> One (the only?) restriction is that an istrstream cannot be re-filled:
>-</para>
>-
>-<programlisting>
>-std::istringstream iss(numerator);
>-iss >> m_num;
>-// this is not possible with istrstream
>-iss.clear();
>-iss.str(denominator);
>-iss >> m_den;
>-</programlisting>
>-
>-<para>
>-If you don't care about speed, you can put these conversions in
>- a template-function:
>-</para>
>-<programlisting>
>-template <class X>
>-void fromString(const string& input, X& any)
>-{
>-#ifdef HAVE_SSTREAM
>-std::istringstream iss(input);
>-#else
>-std::istrstream iss(input.c_str());
>-#endif
>-X temp;
>-iss >> temp;
>-if (iss.fail())
>-throw runtime_error(..)
>-any = temp;
>-}
>-</programlisting>
>-
>-<para>
>- Another example of using stringstreams is in <link linkend="strings.string.shrink">this howto</link>.
>-</para>
>-
>-<para> There is additional information in the libstdc++-v2 info files, in
>-particular <quote>info iostream</quote>.
>-</para>
>-</section>
>-
>-<section xml:id="backwards.second.wchar"><info><title>Little or no wide character support</title></info>
>-
>- <para>
>- Classes <classname>wstring</classname> and
>- <classname>char_traits<wchar_t></classname> are
>- not supported.
>- </para>
>-</section>
>-
>-<section xml:id="backwards.second.iostream_templates"><info><title>No templatized iostreams</title></info>
>-
>- <para>
>- Classes <classname>wfilebuf</classname> and
>- <classname>wstringstream</classname> are not supported.
>- </para>
>-</section>
>-
>-<section xml:id="backwards.second.thread_safety"><info><title>Thread safety issues</title></info>
>-
>-
>- <para>
>- Earlier GCC releases had a somewhat different approach to
>- threading configuration and proper compilation. Before GCC 3.0,
>- configuration of the threading model was dictated by compiler
>- command-line options and macros (both of which were somewhat
>- thread-implementation and port-specific). There were no
>- guarantees related to being able to link code compiled with one
>- set of options and macro setting with another set.
>- </para>
>-
>- <para>
>- For GCC 3.0, configuration of the threading model used with
>- libraries and user-code is performed when GCC is configured and
>- built using the --enable-threads and --disable-threads options.
>- The ABI is stable for symbol name-mangling and limited functional
>- compatibility exists between code compiled under different
>- threading models.
>- </para>
>-
>- <para>
>- The libstdc++ library has been designed so that it can be used in
>- multithreaded applications (with libstdc++-v2 this was only true
>- of the STL parts.) The first problem is finding a
>- <emphasis>fast</emphasis> method of implementation portable to
>- all platforms. Due to historical reasons, some of the library is
>- written against per-CPU-architecture spinlocks and other parts
>- against the gthr.h abstraction layer which is provided by gcc. A
>- minor problem that pops up every so often is different
>- interpretations of what "thread-safe" means for a
>- library (not a general program). We currently use the <link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="https://web.archive.org/web/20171225062613/http://www.sgi.com/tech/stl/thread_safety.html">same
>- definition that SGI</link> uses for their STL subset. However,
>- the exception for read-only containers only applies to the STL
>- components. This definition is widely-used and something similar
>- will be used in the next version of the C++ standard library.
>- </para>
>-
>- <para>
>- Here is a small link farm to threads (no pun) in the mail
>- archives that discuss the threading problem. Each link is to the
>- first relevant message in the thread; from there you can use
>- "Thread Next" to move down the thread. This farm is in
>- latest-to-oldest order.
>- </para>
>-
>- <itemizedlist>
>- <listitem>
>- <para>
>- Our threading expert Loren gives a breakdown of <link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/libstdc++/2001-10/msg00024.html">the
>- six situations involving threads</link> for the 3.0
>- release series.
>- </para>
>- </listitem>
>- <listitem>
>- <para>
>- <link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/libstdc++/2001-05/msg00384.html">
>- This message</link> inspired a recent updating of issues with
>- threading and the SGI STL library. It also contains some
>- example POSIX-multithreaded STL code.
>- </para>
>- </listitem>
>- </itemizedlist>
>-
>- <para>
>- (A large selection of links to older messages has been removed;
>- many of the messages from 1999 were lost in a disk crash, and the
>- few people with access to the backup tapes have been too swamped
>- with work to restore them. Many of the points have been
>- superseded anyhow.)
>- </para>
>-</section>
>-
> </section>
>
> <section xml:id="backwards.third"><info><title>Third</title></info>
>@@ -588,7 +70,7 @@ libstdc++-v3.
> </para>
>
> <para>The subset commonly known as the Standard Template Library
>- (clauses 23 through 25, mostly) is adapted from the final release
>+ (clauses 23 through 25 in C++98, mostly) is adapted from the final release
> of the SGI STL (version 3.3), with extensive changes.
> </para>
>
>@@ -1223,40 +705,4 @@ AC_DEFUN([AC_HEADER_UNORDERED_SET], [
>
> </section>
>
>-<bibliography xml:id="backwards.biblio"><info><title>Bibliography</title></info>
>-
>-
>- <biblioentry>
>- <title>
>- <link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
>- xlink:href="http://www.kegel.com/gcc/gcc4.html">
>- Migrating to GCC 4.1
>- </link>
>- </title>
>-
>- <author><personname><firstname>Dan</firstname><surname>Kegel</surname></personname></author>
>- </biblioentry>
>-
>- <biblioentry>
>- <title>
>- <link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
>- xlink:href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-gcc/2006/03/msg00405.html">
>- Building the Whole Debian Archive with GCC 4.1: A Summary
>- </link>
>- </title>
>- <author><personname><firstname>Martin</firstname><surname>Michlmayr</surname></personname></author>
>- </biblioentry>
>-
>- <biblioentry>
>- <title>
>- <link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
>- xlink:href="http://annwm.lbl.gov/~leggett/Atlas/gcc-3.2.html">
>- Migration guide for GCC-3.2
>- </link>
>- </title>
>-
>- </biblioentry>
>-
>-</bibliography>
>-
> </section>
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