From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/2359 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kurt H Maier Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: Design idea for subarchs/abivariants Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 19:22:51 -0500 Message-ID: <20121129002251.GA13394@intma.in> References: <20121128192618.GA7491@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <20121128223801.GL10895@port70.net> <20121129001042.GU20323@brightrain.aerifal.cx> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1354148588 27611 80.91.229.3 (29 Nov 2012 00:23:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 00:23:08 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-2360-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Thu Nov 29 01:23:20 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by plane.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TdruP-0000sG-GP for gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Nov 2012 01:23:17 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 15482 invoked by uid 550); 29 Nov 2012 00:23:06 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Original-Received: (qmail 15471 invoked from network); 29 Nov 2012 00:23:05 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20121129001042.GU20323@brightrain.aerifal.cx> Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:2359 Archived-At: On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 07:10:42PM -0500, Rich Felker wrote: > Yes, I thought about this too and even started writing the email that > way before deleting what I wrote and rewriting it. I was trying to > avoid more nested and conditional inclusion, but I don't think it > would actually be too costly to do it the way you proposed. I'm asking this to be educated, rather than to make a point: why is a system like this preferable to the way plan9 libc is written, which as far as I can tell uses no ifdef at all?