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From: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com>
To: Joern Rennecke <amylaar@spamcop.net>
Cc: "Paulo J. Matos" <pocmatos@gmail.com>, gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: C99 Status - inttypes.h
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 19:27:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1108212125530.2761@gerinyyl.fvgr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110722112215.utk9zqjq0c0wss0o-nzlynne@webmail.spamcop.net>

On Fri, 22 Jul 2011, Joern Rennecke wrote:
>>>> But readers will focus on the word "Issue" here and think that there is
>>>> something missing.  Perhaps there should be a footnote explaining that
>>>> glibc/eglibc has the needed support, but that other libraries might not.
>>> I agree. It should say something as "Library Dependent", and report
>>> glibc status.
> It still makes sense to clarify the language to indicate that, depending on
> the library used, this might be, in fact, a library non-issue.
> [...]
> I agree that trying to track every library there would be a maintenance
> burden, but giving one example of a library that works is meaningful.
> And, since GCC is still a GNU project, mentioning the status of GNU libc
> doesn't seem that arbitrary.

Can you propose a change along these lines?  I think it does make
sense, both to be more clear on what may be a (non-)issue and to
refer to GNU libc as a reference implementation where that makes
sense.

Gerald

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-08-21 19:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-21 14:30 Diogo Sousa
2011-07-21 15:52 ` Joseph S. Myers
2011-07-21 18:13   ` Joe Buck
2011-07-22 11:05     ` Diogo Sousa
2011-07-22 13:03       ` Paulo J. Matos
2011-07-22 15:38         ` Joern Rennecke
2011-07-22 17:43           ` Paulo J. Matos
2011-07-22 20:12             ` James Dennett
2011-07-23 19:29           ` Weddington, Eric
2011-07-23 21:10             ` Eric Botcazou
2011-07-23 22:47               ` Weddington, Eric
2011-08-21 19:27           ` Gerald Pfeifer [this message]
2011-09-25 13:00             ` Joern Rennecke
2011-09-25 22:49               ` Joseph S. Myers
2011-09-25 22:53               ` Gerald Pfeifer
2011-09-26  7:11                 ` Joseph S. Myers
2011-07-21 16:06 ` Basile Starynkevitch
2011-07-21 22:45   ` Ian Lance Taylor

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