cstdio stdio.h namespace

Solution 1:

Including cstdio imports the symbol names in std namespace and possibly in Global namespace.
Including stdio.h imports the symbol names in Global namespace and possibly in std namespace.

The same applies for all c-styled headers.


Reference:
C++11 standard

Annex D (normative) Compatibility features [depr] states:

D.6 C standard library headers

1 For compatibility with the C standard library and the C Unicode TR, the C++ standard library provides the 25 C headers, as shown in Table 151.

Which include:

<assert.h> <float.h> <math.h> <stddef.h> <tgmath.h> <complex.h> <inttypes.h> <setjmp.h> <stdio.h> <time.h> <ctype.h> <iso646.h> <signal.h> <stdint.h> <uchar.h> <errno.h> <limits.h> <stdarg.h> <stdlib.h> <wchar.h> <fenv.h> <locale.h> <stdbool.h> <string.h> <wctype.h>

Further on,

2 Every C header, each of which has a name of the form name.h, behaves as if each name placed in the standard library namespace by the corresponding cname header is placed within the global namespace scope. It is unspecified whether these names are first declared or defined within namespace scope (3.3.6) of the namespace std and are then injected into the global namespace scope by explicit using-declarations (7.3.3).

3 [ Example: The header <cstdlib> assuredly provides its declarations and definitions within the namespace std. It may also provide these names within the global namespace. The header <stdlib.h> assuredly provides the same declarations and definitions within the global namespace, much as in the C Standard. It may also provide these names within the namespace std. —end example ]

Solution 2:

According to libstdc++ docs:

The standard specifies that if one includes the C-style header (<math.h> in this case), the symbols will be available in the global namespace and perhaps in namespace std:: (but this is no longer a firm requirement.) One the other hand, including the C++-style header (<cmath>) guarantees that the entities will be found in namespace std and perhaps in the global namespace.

http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/manual/bk01pt01ch03s02.html