From: Quentin Rameau <quinq@fifth.space>
Cc: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [musl] Promoting extension functions up from _GNU_SOURCE ?
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2021 19:04:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210928190437.77a6d909@tpx.quinq.eu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210928123902.GB4428@brightrain.aerifal.cx>
> > Those POSIX-next functions shouldn't be exposed under 200809L anyway,
> > but under 202XXXL (whatever is decided at release), should they?
>
> The only officially-supported is "latest". Up til now that's meant
> 2008 (+TCs) only, but my original intent was always that it be moving
> with the standard. We generally don't have different version handling
> unless there were interfaces *removed* in the new version (like
> gethostby* etc.), which are still exposed under the old version.
>
> If there's a reason this doesn't make sense in the future, it can be
> reviewed. But if multiple versions are to be 'supported' in any
> nontrivial sense (even complex header logic) there should be
> compelling reasons to believe just having the new versions would break
> things, not just a box-checking exercise.
Allright, thank you for the clarification!
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-28 17:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-27 23:35 Rich Felker
2021-09-28 5:20 ` Quentin Rameau
2021-09-28 12:39 ` Rich Felker
2021-09-28 17:04 ` Quentin Rameau [this message]
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