The program below can be used to explore how the various feature
test macros are set depending on the glibc version and what
feature test macros are explicitly set. The following shell
session, on a system with glibc 2.10, shows some examples of what
we would see:
$ cc ftm.c
$ ./a.out
_POSIX_SOURCE defined
_POSIX_C_SOURCE defined: 200809L
_BSD_SOURCE defined
_SVID_SOURCE defined
_ATFILE_SOURCE defined
$ cc -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 ftm.c
$ ./a.out
_POSIX_SOURCE defined
_POSIX_C_SOURCE defined: 199506L
_XOPEN_SOURCE defined: 500
$ cc -D_GNU_SOURCE ftm.c
$ ./a.out
_POSIX_SOURCE defined
_POSIX_C_SOURCE defined: 200809L
_ISOC99_SOURCE defined
_XOPEN_SOURCE defined: 700
_XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED defined
_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE defined
_BSD_SOURCE defined
_SVID_SOURCE defined
_ATFILE_SOURCE defined
_GNU_SOURCE defined
Program source
/* ftm.c */
#include <stdint.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
int
main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
#ifdef _POSIX_SOURCE
printf("_POSIX_SOURCE defined\n");
#endif
#ifdef _POSIX_C_SOURCE
printf("_POSIX_C_SOURCE defined: %jdL\n",
(intmax_t) _POSIX_C_SOURCE);
#endif
#ifdef _ISOC99_SOURCE
printf("_ISOC99_SOURCE defined\n");
#endif
#ifdef _ISOC11_SOURCE
printf("_ISOC11_SOURCE defined\n");
#endif
#ifdef _XOPEN_SOURCE
printf("_XOPEN_SOURCE defined: %d\n", _XOPEN_SOURCE);
#endif
#ifdef _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
printf("_XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED defined\n");
#endif
#ifdef _LARGEFILE64_SOURCE
printf("_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE defined\n");
#endif
#ifdef _FILE_OFFSET_BITS
printf("_FILE_OFFSET_BITS defined: %d\n", _FILE_OFFSET_BITS);
#endif
#ifdef _BSD_SOURCE
printf("_BSD_SOURCE defined\n");
#endif
#ifdef _SVID_SOURCE
printf("_SVID_SOURCE defined\n");
#endif
#ifdef _DEFAULT_SOURCE
printf("_DEFAULT_SOURCE defined\n");
#endif
#ifdef _ATFILE_SOURCE
printf("_ATFILE_SOURCE defined\n");
#endif
#ifdef _GNU_SOURCE
printf("_GNU_SOURCE defined\n");
#endif
#ifdef _REENTRANT
printf("_REENTRANT defined\n");
#endif
#ifdef _THREAD_SAFE
printf("_THREAD_SAFE defined\n");
#endif
#ifdef _FORTIFY_SOURCE
printf("_FORTIFY_SOURCE defined\n");
#endif
exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
}