From: Josiah Worcester <josiahw@gmail.com>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: the case for __MUSL__
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 11:59:39 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMAJcuB24w8pUKK66YiZUXQNeXxLTXajMvgcGgEYGz2UW1ihZg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0E7DD0A2-5CD3-4695-AE48-3C95E6FB195B@cognitive-electronics.com>
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On Dec 29, 2014 11:51 AM, "Richard Gorton" <
rcgorton@cognitive-electronics.com> wrote:
>
>
> That is a single example of some of the code in a library which is NOT
musl.
> There are other places in the example library which know about __APPLE__
or __GLIBC__ or __sun__
>
> My thought is to use __MUSL__ in those libraries as appropriate in place
of __<architecture>__ as the backing libc is musl.
>
> And said use of __MUSL__ is what I am interested in feedback about.
>
The intent of not providing it is to force applications to use a portable
interface rather then being libc specific. So, everyone's leaping to try
and find ways to not need that.
Sorry for the mismatched expectations.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-29 17:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-29 16:27 Richard Gorton
2014-12-29 17:15 ` Josiah Worcester
2014-12-29 17:17 ` Josiah Worcester
2014-12-29 17:37 ` Rich Felker
2014-12-29 17:51 ` Richard Gorton
2014-12-29 17:59 ` Josiah Worcester [this message]
2014-12-29 21:29 ` Justin Cormack
2014-12-29 21:55 ` Rich Felker
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