Re: many packages __FUNCTION__ problems

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Ali Akcaagac <ali akcaagac stud fh-wilhelmshaven de> writes:

> On Mon, 2002-01-28 at 22:24, Owen Taylor wrote:
> > I don't think it is appropriate to put this type of dependencies throughout
> > GNOME. If people use G_STRLOC, then they will get FILE:LINE for non-GCC
> > or GCC >= 3.0, once we deal with the problem in GLib; if they use
> > G_GNUC_FUNCTION or G_GNUC_PRETTY_FUNCTION they will get "". 
> 
> btw: not to mention that a lot of gnome related code deal with direct
>      __FUNCTION__ stuff in their code instead using the glib defined
>      ones.

If code deals with __FUNCTION__ directly, it should just be patched in the mode:

 sprintf (__FUNCTION__ ": An error occurred);

Goes to:

 sprintf ("%s: An error occurred, __FUNCTION__);

No configure checks necessary.

                                                   Owen