Subject: Re: C standard library: standard headers may reserve non-standard identifiers which don't begin with an underscore
From: Brian Inglis <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2021 11:38:30 -0600
List-Id: General Cygwin discussions and problem reports <cygwin.cygwin.com>

On 2021-11-04 06:40, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
> On Nov  4 00:23, Pavel M via Cygwin wrote:
>> Observation: C standard library: standard headers may reserve non-standard
>> identifiers which don't begin with an underscore.
>>
>> Invocations:
>> $ echo -e "#include <limits.h>\n#define NL_NMAX" | gcc -xc - -std=c11
>> -pedantic -Wall -Wextra -E > /dev/null
>> <stdin>:2: warning: "NL_NMAX" redefined
>> In file included from /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-cygwin/11/include/limits.h:203,
>>                   from
>> /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-cygwin/11/include/syslimits.h:7,
>>                   from /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-cygwin/11/include/limits.h:34,
>>                   from <stdin>:1:
>> /usr/include/limits.h:507: note: this is the location of the previous
>> definition
>>    507 | #define NL_NMAX                              INT_MAX
>>
>> $ echo -e "#include <limits.h>\n#define PAGESIZE" | gcc -xc - -std=c11
>> -pedantic -Wall -Wextra -E > /dev/null
>> <stdin>:2: warning: "PAGESIZE" redefined
>> In file included from /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-cygwin/11/include/limits.h:203,
>>                   from
>> /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-cygwin/11/include/syslimits.h:7,
>>                   from /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-cygwin/11/include/limits.h:34,
>>                   from <stdin>:1:
>> /usr/include/limits.h:220: note: this is the location of the previous
>> definition
>>    220 | #define PAGESIZE __PAGESIZE
>>
>> # and so on...
> 
> That's ok for limits.h, see
> https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/limits.h.html
> 
> Some of the values also use feature test macros.

Most Unix implementations follow POSIX over C and those compilers 
default to POSIX and/or GNU over strict C standards.
As they use feature test macros, most/all of these should be suppressed 
if your compiler supports -stdXX or equivalent and issue standard 
required diagnostics with -pedantic{,-errors} or equivalent.
Library interfaces may also provide means to prefer certain standard 
calling sequences over de facto alternatives.
See your compiler and library newlib/libc documentation under Standards 
or equivalent e.g

	$ info gcc Standards
	$ info libc Standards

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