From: Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com>
To: gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix libiberty to detect new cygwin exports
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 15:24:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010815214854.A18174@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010815153958.D11864@redhat.com>
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 03:39:58PM -0700, Richard Henderson wrote:
>On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 06:06:21PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> Newer cygwins export sys_errlist and sys_nerr.
>
>Why? strerror provides equivalent functionality, and its
>use requires fewer runtime relocations.
We already export these _variables with a leading underscore.
Apparently a lot of legacy code expects it without the underscore, too.
Linux exports both, so Cygwin should too.
Hopefully no one is writing new software that uses sys_errlist. I agree
that people should use the "modern" interface for this but it is tiring
having to instruct people on how to rewrite their software that "works
find on linux".
Now that you've mentioned this, though, I think I'll add a cautionary
comment to the appropriate header file, like linux.
cgf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-15 15:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-15 15:06 Christopher Faylor
2001-08-15 15:24 ` Richard Henderson
2001-08-15 15:24 ` Christopher Faylor [this message]
2001-08-16 10:49 ` [RFA] Fix libiberty to detect new cygwin export, try 2 Christopher Faylor
2001-08-16 13:38 ` DJ Delorie
2001-08-17 13:17 ` Christopher Faylor
2001-08-16 16:47 ` [PATCH] Fix libiberty to detect new cygwin exports Richard Henderson
2001-08-17 13:16 ` Christopher Faylor
2001-08-15 15:24 ` Christopher Faylor
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