[v3] Remove uses of <cstddef> as an implementation detail

[Martin Sebor]

Sorry for butting in, but wouldn't using gcc's __PTRDIFF_TYPE__
and __SIZE_TYPE__ instead of the typedefs be cleaner (as in
less public namespace pollution and stricter implementation)?

Martin

On 06/07/2010 06:37 AM, Johannes Singler wrote:
> Paolo Carlini wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>> Well, YaST says that glibc 2.9-2.12.1 (all automatic updates installed)
>>> is installed on my machines, and they do show these problems.  glibc 2.9
>>> was released on Nov 13, 2008, but the bug was fixed only on Dec 29,
>>> 2008.  So there might also be affected systems running glibc 2.9, and I
>>> really wonder why it worked on any openSuse 11.1.
>>>
>>> <http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=44417>
>>
>> Personally, I may have tested on a 11.2, instead of an 11.1, I don't
>> remember now, sorry. Anyway, no reason to panic, later today I will
>> correct that remain glitch in testsuite_allocator.h and we should be ok.
>
> The smallest patch that seems (make check is not done yet, but has
> passed thousands of tests okay) to fix the problem for me, is attached.
>   There might be more elegant ones, but problems also appear in
> /libsupc++/cxxabi.h, so it is not enough to prefix occurrences of
> ptrdiff_t in the testsuite files.
>
>> To be super-safe I will also double check that the library nowhere
>> includes<wchar.h>  before<stddef.h>, actually it should be mostly
>> matter of tweaking<cwchar>  and forcing it the redundant include for
>> glibc 2.9 systems. That should also allow us to remove the wa put in
>> place by Jason. Johannes, then, before closing the PR I will be looking
>> for your confirmation that thing are actually fine with 2.9, I can't do
>> that myself right now.
>
> Okay.
>
> Johannes