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From: Szabolcs Nagy <nsz@port70.net>
To: Alex Xu <alex_y_xu@yahoo.ca>
Cc: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [musl] __MUSL__ macro
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2023 18:26:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230706162646.GG3630668@port70.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <168864586814.64499.13397704850676744237@alexps.local>

* Alex Xu <alex_y_xu@yahoo.ca> [2023-07-06 08:17:48 -0400]:

> Quoting Alastair Houghton (2023-07-06 06:48:04)
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Before I start, I’m aware of
> > 
> >   <https://www.openwall.com/lists/musl/2013/03/29/13>
> > 
> > but I *still* want to add __MUSL__ (see attached patch).
> > 
> > Let me explain what we’re doing, why we want it and why we think musl *should* have it.  We’re trying to add support for musl to Swift <https://swift.org <https://swiftlang.org/>> and its attendant core libraries, and there are a number of things about musl that presently differ from other platforms/C libraries we support.
> 
> All of these seem to fall at least suspiciously closely to "the usage
> case was badly wrong"...

the problem is not that the usage is wrong, but that
these can change between different versions of musl
(within abi constraints) and header changes can be
backported by distros.

so __MUSL__ cannot solve these issues.

  reply	other threads:[~2023-07-06 16:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-07-06 10:48 Alastair Houghton
2023-07-06 12:17 ` Alex Xu
2023-07-06 16:26   ` Szabolcs Nagy [this message]
2023-07-07  7:14   ` Alastair Houghton
2023-07-07  7:30     ` A. Wilcox
2023-07-07  8:24       ` Alastair Houghton
2023-07-07 11:20     ` Laurent Bercot
2023-07-07 11:45     ` Jeffrey Walton
2023-07-07 13:53     ` Rich Felker
2023-07-07 14:18       ` Alastair Houghton
2023-07-07 12:47 ` Rich Felker
2023-07-07 13:14   ` Alastair Houghton
2023-07-07 14:19     ` Markus Wichmann
2023-07-07 14:26       ` Markus Wichmann
2023-07-07 14:46       ` Alastair Houghton
2023-07-07 15:02       ` Andrew Bell
2023-07-07 15:19         ` Markus Wichmann
2023-07-07 15:24           ` Andrew Bell
2023-07-07 15:34           ` Alastair Houghton
2023-07-07 15:45             ` Rich Felker
2023-07-07 15:58               ` Alastair Houghton
2023-07-07 15:05     ` i262jq

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