[Bug libc/14553] New: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h

[Bug libc/14553] New: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h

[bugdal at aerifal dot cx]

http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14553

             Bug #: 14553
           Summary: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
           Product: glibc
           Version: unspecified
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: libc
        AssignedTo: unassigned@sourceware.org
        ReportedBy: bugdal@aerifal.cx
                CC: drepper.fsp@gmail.com
    Classification: Unclassified


sys/types.h unconditionally defines loff_t, a nonstandard type. It should only
be exposed when feature test macros requesting a standards-conformant
environment are not defined. I think this means it should be conditional under
__USE_MISC or something like that...

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[Bug libc/14553] Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h

[joseph at codesourcery dot com]

http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14553

--- Comment #1 from joseph at codesourcery dot com <joseph at codesourcery dot com> 2012-09-07 14:35:49 UTC ---
Note that this is a quality-of-implementation issue, not a standards 
conformance one (since sys/types.h is a POSIX header, not ISO C, and POSIX 
reserves all *_t type names when any header is included).  But since glibc 
generally tries to avoid defining such types when the relevant standard 
isn't enabled (just as, for example, declarations of str* functions are 
appropriately conditioned in string.h even though such names are reserved 
by ISO C), this should be fixed consistently with how glibc generally 
handles such issues.

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[Bug libc/14553] Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h

[fweimer at redhat dot com]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14553

Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com> changed:

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