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author | Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@redhat.com> | 2012-11-16 18:56:31 +0530 |
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committer | Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@redhat.com> | 2012-11-16 19:12:28 +0530 |
commit | b1848fdeec705bc7d2f64e3a365f1ff66eeb4f0d (patch) | |
tree | 43fd87fcdba15d8b7dc37eda19a595b14047f170 /libio | |
parent | d14fbb177ac9a604b38d51034c6c61271d0df0db (diff) | |
download | glibc-b1848fdeec705bc7d2f64e3a365f1ff66eeb4f0d.tar.gz |
Note in a comment that references to C++ bits are obsolete
libio is not used by libstdc++ anymore, but there are references to
streambuf are all over.
Diffstat (limited to 'libio')
-rw-r--r-- | libio/libioP.h | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/libio/libioP.h b/libio/libioP.h index a2800524ec..fe81115094 100644 --- a/libio/libioP.h +++ b/libio/libioP.h @@ -25,6 +25,14 @@ This exception applies to code released by its copyright holders in files containing the exception. */ +/* NOTE: libio is now exclusively used only by glibc since libstdc++ has its + own implementation. As a result, functions that were implemented for C++ + (like *sputn) may no longer have C++ semantics. This is of course only + relevant for internal callers of these functions since these functions are + not intended for external use otherwise. + + FIXME: All of the C++ cruft eventually needs to go away. */ + #include <errno.h> #ifndef __set_errno # define __set_errno(Val) errno = (Val) |