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authorA. Wilcox2018-06-23 17:57:48 -0500
committersin2018-07-24 11:00:30 +0100
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tree7e8ab469005400603d788c1291fdd6dfb5ba1b4e /README
parent6e7e43ff992fa232b186cec9fc2920ca260c27a6 (diff)
Don't use __extension__ in C++ code
A few important notes: * __extension__ is a GNU C "alternate" keyword, not a C++ keyword.[1] * __extension__ is designed to work on "expressions"; it does work on #include_next in C mode, but it has no effect in C++ mode; the warning will still appear, if enabled, even with __extension__ preceding #include_next. This is because #include_next is not considered an expression in C++, so the compiler attaches __extension__ to the first expression of the header. All of this leads us to a build failure while building at least all Mozilla software. Moz has an alternate -isystem dir searched before /usr/include that overrides some headers, including <features.h>. The first statement in each of these headers is a #pragma, and since __extension__ is looking for an expression, and #pragma is a "null" expression, we end up with the following error: dist/system_wrappers/features.h:1:9: error: '#pragma' is not allowed here Since __extension__ has no effect on #include_next in C++ mode anyway, and since it can cause breakage, this commit omits __extension__ in C++ mode. [1]: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-6.4.0/gcc/Alternate-Keywords.html
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