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From: Luca Barbato <lu_zero@gentoo.org>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Best bikeshed ever (feature test macros)
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2012 11:11:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <503896A9.9010907@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120824214138.GA17792@brightrain.aerifal.cx>

On 8/24/12 11:41 PM, Rich Felker wrote:
> Hi all,

> 1. Leaving everything as it is.
>
> PROS: Obtaining conforming standard C environment is easy. Detecting
> (for the purpose of flaming or fixing) programs failing to use feature
> test macros correctly is also easy.
>
> CONS: Basically every program requires a feature test macro to be
> added to CFLAGS in order to compile it. Using -D_GNU_SOURCE works 99%
> of the time, but the other 1% of the time it will _break_ programs
> that are already correctly using -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=700 or similar by
> introducing nonstandard functions that pollute the namespace and
> conflict with the application. Thus it becomes really hard to have a
> universal working build procedure. It's also very hard to work around
> broken build systems (like GCC's bootstrapping) that refuse to honor
> your custom CFLAGS.

Would be nice to see which would require something more first. The 
current musl seems working decently as-is.

lu



  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-08-25  9:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-24 21:41 Rich Felker
2012-08-24 22:24 ` Gregor Richards
2012-08-24 23:59 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2012-08-25  7:35 ` orc
2012-08-25 12:32   ` Rich Felker
2012-08-25 15:29     ` orc
2012-08-25  9:11 ` Luca Barbato [this message]
2012-08-27 18:08 ` Isaac Dunham
2012-08-29  5:34 ` philomath
2012-08-29 13:49   ` Rich Felker
2012-08-29 14:01     ` Gregor Richards
2012-08-29 14:43       ` Rich Felker
2012-08-29 15:08         ` Bobby Bingham
2012-08-29 15:23           ` Rich Felker
2012-08-29 17:17             ` Gregor Richards
2012-08-29 17:59       ` Isaac Dunham
2012-08-29 18:08         ` Rich Felker
2012-09-02  8:48 ` Arvid E. Picciani
2012-09-02 15:19   ` Rich Felker
2012-09-02 15:27     ` Arvid E. Picciani
2012-09-02 15:44       ` Rich Felker
2012-09-02 17:00 ` nwmcsween
2012-09-02 17:06   ` Gregor Richards
2012-09-02 17:13     ` Rich Felker
2012-09-02 17:18       ` Gregor Richards
2012-09-02 17:10   ` Rich Felker

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