Robert Bradshaw wrote:
> On Jan 15, 2009, at 5:04 PM, Michael Abshoff wrote:

<SNIP>

Hi Robert,

>>> Thanks for looking into this--from what I understand of what you sent
>>> it's symbols like "min" and "set" that are getting exported to the
>>> namespace that weren't before?
>>
>> Yes, I avoided the term namespace since there is no meaning like  
>> that in
>> C as I assume you all know well.
> 
> Yeah. Scope would be a better word, and there's only one global one.

:) - having a discussion about Cython, C and C++ at the same time makes 
using technical terms more than a little ambiguous.

>>> I'm not sure what happened between
>>> 0.10.3 and now that would call this--did anyone include any new  
>>> headers?
>> I don't know, but I assume you mean this in the context of Cython.
> 
> Yes, I'm meaning in the context of Cython. Either that or someone  
> changed how (C++?) files get processed. I certainly haven't done  
> anything in that area, but it's possible that someone else did.

This isn't just C++, i.e. the pari failures, the quaddouble and others 
are all pure C issues unless NTL is pulled for example in those cases.

> A random thought, this couldn't be an artifact of all the char* ->  
> const char* changes, could it be?

Given that this is also a C issue I cannot see how this could cause the 
problem, but given my experience over the last year on porting Sage I 
can tell you that the impossible seems to happen weekly and I have to 
eat my hat because of that quite often :)

> - Robert

Cheers,

Michael

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