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> Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2015 08:01:11 +0300
> From: "Andris Pavenis (andris DOT pavenis AT iki DOT fi)" <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
> 
> On 06/04/2015 11:22 PM, DJ Delorie wrote:
> > Hmmm... either our headers need to be updated to newer ANSI versions
> > (should we be exporting more symbols now?) or libstdc++ is making
> > assumptions they're not telling us about (we'd need to test for those
> > assumptions, not __cplusplus in general).
> >
> libstdc++ uses these macros unconditionally. So perhaps there is no other quick way as my earlier 
> patch for now.
> Run some script (under Linux) to check whether there are other similar problems after patching errno.h
> 
> Script compiled header files in similar way using -std=c++03 ,-c++11 and c++14. I ignored failures 
> for which also similar Linux compile fails (like c++11 required). Fedora 22 has gcc-5.1 as system 
> compiler so that fits nicely for testing.
> 
> The results: no more unexpected failures after patching errno.h (some parts of libstdc++ depends on 
> other stuff and as result fails)
> 
> So I'll applying patch unless there are objections

Please apply it only conditioned by __cplusplus, and please make sure
no errno macros that are NOT defined by the C++11 draft standard are
defined by errno.h when both __cplusplus and __STRICT_ANSI__ are
defined.

IOW, we still want to be compatible to ANSI standards, even though
they changed since v2.03.

Thanks.

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