From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/1356 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gregor Richards Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: [PATCH 9/10] GLIBC ABI patches Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 14:19:15 -0400 Message-ID: <500EE723.5050003@purdue.edu> References: <20120722181332.191d4fa5@newbook> <20120722183828.20b71c9d@newbook> <72fae6f34ad57662422b87379f3fdf9b@exys.org> <65E116B4-1634-478A-957E-A7B374396614@palsenberg.com> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1343153981 17085 80.91.229.3 (24 Jul 2012 18:19:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 18:19:41 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-1357-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Tue Jul 24 20:19:41 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 1Stjhh-0003cr-HD for gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Jul 2012 20:19:29 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 26343 invoked by uid 550); 24 Jul 2012 18:19:28 -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 26333 invoked from network); 24 Jul 2012 18:19:28 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686 on x86_64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120713 Thunderbird/14.0 In-Reply-To: <65E116B4-1634-478A-957E-A7B374396614@palsenberg.com> X-PMX-Version: 5.5.9.388399 X-PerlMx-Virus-Scanned: Yes Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:1356 Archived-At: On 07/24/12 14:15, Igmar Palsenberg wrote: > >>> Just nonsense aliases GNU uses... >>> Needed for ABI compatability. >> could we mark them as such? at least with a comment. >> I really like that musl is so readable. This patch adds some obfuscation that can simply be countered by marking it as "ok this is only here for reason X." > I would like to see those options behind a compile time option : It bloats musl with in many cases unneeded code. I test my compiles with musl, and I like it lean and mean. > > > Regards, > > > > Igmar These are just aliases, not code. There's no bloat there. One of the advantages of musl is its LACK of configurability: If you have “musl”, you know what precisely you're getting. With valediction, - Gregor Richards