------- Comment #7 from gdr at integrable-solutions dot net 2006-05-01 23:39 ------- Subject: Re: valarray uses __cos which may conflict with libm functions
"marc dot glisse at normalesup dot org" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | (In reply to comment #4) | > Should all those private classes and functions be declared in some | > specific namespace std::glibcxx_private to have a single point of failure? | | Oups, I just noticed that was one of the roles of __gnu_cxx (although I don't | understand why this namespace is not a subnamespace of std:: as tr1 (or at | least contains a using namespace std;), Why shall it? Before people suggest more tricky playing with libstdc++ name spaces, I would recommand people understand that namespaces are not silver bullet against machivelic playing with names. | which would at the same time fix things | like getenv not being prefixed by std:: in ext/mt_allocator.h). That is a separate problem that does not require namespace nesting. Nesting namespaces does not come for free. You really need to understand its consequences (name lookp, overload resolution, etc.) before proposing it. -- Gaby -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27340