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From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Kelley <andrew@ziglang.org>
Cc: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>,
	GNU C Library <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] features: version-gate _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2022 17:37:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ee4m35mo.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f9344eeb-4072-8e2d-dd0f-0b8411e0ec8f@ziglang.org> (Andrew Kelley's message of "Fri, 28 Jan 2022 21:04:01 -0700")

* Andrew Kelley:

> The Zig project aims to support targeting many versions of glibc; not
> only the latest one. Our strategy is multi-faceted. For the shared 
> objects, there is this project:
> https://github.com/ziglang/glibc-abi-tool/
>
> And then we have the headers. For the most part, the latest glibc
> headers are still correct for targeting systems with older glibc 
> versions. Some of the other usages of __GNUC_PREREQ look to be
> supporting this use case to me. An occasional patch such as this one
> is needed to make it work correctly, however.

__GNUC_PREREQ certainly does not work for this, it's for GCC version
checks.

Why do you need *C* header files?

Thanks,
Florian


      parent reply	other threads:[~2022-02-01 16:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-29  2:37 Andrew Kelley
2022-01-29  3:00 ` H.J. Lu
2022-01-29  4:04   ` Andrew Kelley
2022-01-29  4:15     ` Andrew Kelley
2022-01-29 10:41       ` Szabolcs Nagy
2022-02-01 16:37     ` Florian Weimer [this message]

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