C++11 has two new string conversion functions into unsigned long
and long long
: std::stoul()
and std::stoll()
.
The recent Android NDK r9 introduces Clang 3.3 compiler which is said to be C++11 feature complete. There are prototypes for these functions deep inside NDK, however I cannot use them.
What do I need to do to use them?
P.S. I already do LOCAL_CPPFLAGS += -std=c++11
The reason why you cannot use the functions is quite deep rooted, and unfortunately currently unsolvable.
Looking into the libs/armeabi-v7a/include/bits/c++config.h
file in the gnu stdlibc++ folder, you'll see this:
... /* Define if C99 functions or macros from <wchar.h>, <math.h>, <complex.h>, <stdio.h>, and <stdlib.h> can be used or exposed. */ /* #undef _GLIBCXX_USE_C99 */ ...
The above, in conjunction with the following snippet from bits/basic_string.h
spells bad news:
... #if (defined(__GXX_EXPERIMENTAL_CXX0X__) && defined(_GLIBCXX_USE_C99) \ && !defined(_GLIBCXX_HAVE_BROKEN_VSWPRINTF)) /* The definitions of Numeric Conversions [string.conversions] */ #endif ...
Thus, these functions are unusable in the NDK.
Root Cause: The root cause seems to be that the C99 functionality usage has been disabled in the GNU stdlibc++ on the armeabi-v7a platform due to the fact the the Bionic libc does not support complex math (the standard C library on Android is Bionic).
Possible Fix (untested): Explore CrystaX's Android NDK which seems to have extensions over the Vanilla Android NDK.
Note: __GXX_EXPERIMENTAL_CXX0X__
is defined by adding -std=gnu++11
to APP_CXXFLAGS
or LOCAL_CXXFLAGS
Detailed Test log: Built using NDK version r8e
jni/Application.mk:
APP_STL := gnustl_static APP_CXXFLAGS += -std=gnu++11 NDK_TOOLCHAIN_VERSION := 4.7
jni/Android.mk
LOCAL_PATH := $(call my-dir) include $(CLEAR_VARS) LOCAL_MODULE := cxx11 LOCAL_SRC_FILES := cxx11.cpp include $(BUILD_EXECUTABLE)
jni/cxx11.cpp:
#include <iostream> #include <string> int main(int argc, char* argv[]) { #if defined(__GXX_EXPERIMENTAL_CXX0X__) std::cout<<"__GXX_EXPERIMENTAL_CXX0X__ defined."<<std::endl; #else std::cout<<"__GXX_EXPERIMENTAL_CXX0X__ not defined."<<std::endl; #endif #if defined(_GLIBCXX_USE_C99) std::cout<<"_GLIBCXX_USE_C99 defined."<<std::endl; #else std::cout<<"_GLIBCXX_USE_C99 not defined."<<std::endl; #endif #if defined(_GLIBCXX_HAVE_BROKEN_VSWPRINTF) std::cout<<"_GLIBCXX_HAVE_BROKEN_VSWPRINTF defined."<<std::endl; #else std::cout<<"_GLIBCXX_HAVE_BROKEN_VSWPRINTF not defined."<<std::endl; #endif #if (defined(__GXX_EXPERIMENTAL_CXX0X__) && defined(_GLIBCXX_USE_C99) \ && !defined(_GLIBCXX_HAVE_BROKEN_VSWPRINTF)) std::string s="1"; std::cout<<"ll:"<<std::stoll(s)<<std::endl<<"ul:"<<std::stoul(s)<<std::endl; #else std::cout<<"No support for stoll/stoul."<<std::endl; #endif return(0); }
Output on Nexus 4 (Android 4.3):
u0_a51@mako:/ $ /data/local/tmp/cxx11 __GXX_EXPERIMENTAL_CXX0X__ defined. _GLIBCXX_USE_C99 not defined. _GLIBCXX_HAVE_BROKEN_VSWPRINTF not defined. No support for stoll/stoul.
Adding:
APP_STL := c++_static
to Application.mk fixed my issue of not being able to access std::stoi() (using gcc 4.8.4).
solution via Daniel Tavares, from this Google Groups post.
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