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From: "carlos at redhat dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla@sourceware.org>
To: glibc-bugs@sourceware.org
Subject: [Bug libc/15459] RFE: Add |localeconv_l()| to allow porting of FreeBSD/OSX applications...
Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 19:02:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bug-15459-131-MoArDgIk2B@http.sourceware.org/bugzilla/> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bug-15459-131@http.sourceware.org/bugzilla/>

http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15459

--- Comment #5 from Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com> 2013-05-14 19:02:07 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> By harmful, I meant harmful to portability and/or application simplicity. If
> there's already a simple, portable way to do something that doesn't have
> excessive cost, adding a second way to do it means an application will take one
> of three paths:
> 
> 1. Using the portable way and ignoring the availability of the non-portable
> one.
> 
> 2. Adding configure checks and #ifdefs to use the new way optionally.
> 
> 3. Using the new non-portable way unconditionally.

Rich, Thanks for clarifying. That makes sense.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-05-14 19:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-11  1:18 [Bug libc/15459] New: " roland.mainz at nrubsig dot org
2013-05-11  1:27 ` [Bug libc/15459] " roland.mainz at nrubsig dot org
2013-05-11  3:26 ` carlos at redhat dot com
2013-05-11 23:44 ` bugdal at aerifal dot cx
2013-05-14 14:17 ` carlos at redhat dot com
2013-05-14 17:02 ` bugdal at aerifal dot cx
2013-05-14 19:02 ` carlos at redhat dot com [this message]
2013-05-14 21:50 ` roland.mainz at nrubsig dot org
2013-05-14 22:07 ` bugdal at aerifal dot cx
2013-06-16  4:30 ` bugdal at aerifal dot cx
2013-07-12  1:47 ` carlos at redhat dot com
2013-07-12  2:44 ` wendlin1974 at gmail dot com
2013-07-12  2:54 ` wendlin1974 at gmail dot com
2013-07-12  3:20 ` bugdal at aerifal dot cx
2013-07-12  5:25 ` jakub at redhat dot com
2014-06-13 13:24 ` fweimer at redhat dot com
2015-08-27 22:14 ` [Bug locale/15459] " jsm28 at gcc dot gnu.org

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