From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4767 invoked by alias); 23 Jun 2010 19:19:37 -0000 Received: (qmail 4737 invoked by uid 22791); 23 Jun 2010 19:19:32 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.codesourcery.com (HELO mail.codesourcery.com) (38.113.113.100) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 23 Jun 2010 19:19:24 +0000 Received: (qmail 5865 invoked from network); 23 Jun 2010 19:19:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO digraph.polyomino.org.uk) (joseph@127.0.0.2) by mail.codesourcery.com with ESMTPA; 23 Jun 2010 19:19:22 -0000 Received: from jsm28 (helo=localhost) by digraph.polyomino.org.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ORVTk-0005y2-Va; Wed, 23 Jun 2010 19:19:20 +0000 Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 19:19:00 -0000 From: "Joseph S. Myers" To: Joel Brobecker cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [RFA 2/3] Import vsnprintf from libiberty if not available. In-Reply-To: <1277315177-17869-3-git-send-email-brobecker@adacore.com> Message-ID: References: <1277315177-17869-1-git-send-email-brobecker@adacore.com> <1277315177-17869-3-git-send-email-brobecker@adacore.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2010-06/txt/msg00512.txt.bz2 On Wed, 23 Jun 2010, Joel Brobecker wrote: > The long-term goal in this area is to start using gnulib instead of > libiberty, so I will look at that in the short future. But in the As a general principle, gnulib and libiberty serve similar purposes and I don't believe the GNU Project needs two different libraries in this area (furthermore, both gnulib and libiberty import many files from glibc, though libiberty often has accumulated many local changes to these files). In practice I expect it would be a lot of work to convert libiberty-using software to gnulib, or to make libiberty import most of its files unchanged from gnulib and so be more of a wrapper around gnulib, and the benefits would be limited - but certainly it seems a good idea for more self-contained software such as gdbserver. -- Joseph S. Myers joseph@codesourcery.com