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authorRich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx>2012-05-09 11:47:06 -0400
committerRich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx>2012-05-09 11:47:06 -0400
commit37bb3cce4598c19288628e675eaf1cda6e96958f (patch)
tree5a31a0a48fb89d0490997c97d208b10ad9c76e8f /include/string.h
parent0e195dfaa4902a73179f7ab296d47f01d3518ad3 (diff)
downloadmusl-37bb3cce4598c19288628e675eaf1cda6e96958f.tar.gz
omit declaration of basename wrongly interpreted as prototype in C++
the non-prototype declaration of basename in string.h is an ugly compromise to avoid breaking 2 types of broken software: 1. programs which assume basename is declared in string.h and thus would suffer from dangerous pointer-truncation if an implicit declaration were used. 2. programs which include string.h with _GNU_SOURCE defined but then declare their own prototype for basename using the incorrect GNU signature for the function (which would clash with a correct prototype). however, since C++ does not have non-prototype declarations and interprets them as prototypes for a function with no arguments, we must omit it when compiling C++ code. thankfully, all known broken apps that suffer from the above issues are written in C, not C++.
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diff --git a/include/string.h b/include/string.h
index 4aa930ed..8cf0ee9d 100644
--- a/include/string.h
+++ b/include/string.h
@@ -85,8 +85,10 @@ char *strcasestr(const char *, const char *);
char *strsep(char **, const char *);
void *memrchr(const void *, int, size_t);
void *mempcpy(void *, const void *, size_t);
+#ifndef __cplusplus
char *basename();
#endif
+#endif
#ifdef __cplusplus
}