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Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2012 16:54:21 +0200
From: Denis Excoffier <cygwin AT Denis-Excoffier DOT org>
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Subject: Re: snprintf() with g++ -std=c++98: error: 'snprintf' was not declared in this scope
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On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 10:02:24AM -0400, Ryan Johnson wrote:
>> On 04/04/2012 9:32 AM, Denis Excoffier wrote:
>> >Hello,
>> >
>> >It could be that snprintf() is not properly declared in<stdio.h>.
>> According to [1], it's not officially part of c++98 (???). Try
>> gnu++98 instead. As for why it's not in c++0x, there's a problem
>> with the macros being defined [2] that AFAIK remains unresolved;
>> again the workaround is gnu++0x.
>> 
>> [1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-01/msg00791.html
>> [2] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-08/msg00311.html
>> 
Oh, i should have found these, at least the first one... For c++0x,
couldn't this be addressed now? As a start, i can (humbly) propose:

--- stdio.h	2012-04-04 14:50:32.000000000 +0159
+++ stdio.h++	2012-04-04 16:38:21.049273700 +0159
@@ -237,7 +237,7 @@
 off_t	_EXFUN(ftello, ( FILE *));
 #endif
 #endif
-#if !defined(__STRICT_ANSI__) || (__STDC_VERSION__ >= 199901L)
+#if !defined(__STRICT_ANSI__) || (__STDC_VERSION__ >= 199901L) || (__cplusplus >= 201103L)
 #ifndef _REENT_ONLY
 int	_EXFUN(asiprintf, (char **, const char *, ...)
                _ATTRIBUTE ((__format__ (__printf__, 2, 3))));


Regards,

Denis Excoffier.

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