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• PlatformIO Core.
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Configuration

Operating system: Win 10 x64

PlatformIO Version (platformio --version): 6.0.2a2

Description of problem

The PlatformIO core does not extract -D<macro> definitions from CCFLAGS into the e.g. VSCode Intellisense c_cpp_properties.json. Only macros in CPPDEFINES are.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Create a new Nodemcuv2 + Arduino (ESP8266) project
2. Add a call to tzset(); in setup()

Actual Results

Intellisense does not know about this function and highlights it as error.

Expected Results

Intellisense knows about this function since Arduino.h is included which includes time.h which says

#if __POSIX_VISIBLE void tzset	(void); #endif

If problems with PlatformIO Build System:

The content of platformio.ini:

[env:d1_mini] platform = espressif8266 board = d1_mini framework = arduino

Source file to reproduce issue:

#include <Arduino.h> #include <string.h> #include <string> void setup() {} void loop() { const char *s = "test"; char buf[64]; strlcpy(buf, s, sizeof(buf)); setenv("TZ", "CST-8", 1); tzset(); int res = strcasecmp("A", "a"); }

Additional info

Intellisense does not recognize tzset() because that needs the _GNU_SOURCE to be defined (which through a specific chain enables POSIX_VISIBLE). The Arduino-ESP8266 build process activates that macro through CCFLAGS here and it correctly shows up in the build commands. However, the .vscode/c_cpp_properties.json does not have _GNU_SOURCE in the defines section because -D flags in CCFLAGS is not considered during the generation of this file.

I considered this fixing this by moving -D flags from CCFLAGS to CPPDEFINES, but this is then specific to Arduino-ESP8266. I think in general it would be good if the core is able to recognize this situation and relays the activated macros to the IDEs correctly. (See esp8266/Arduino#8579).

Also see community topic here and here.