From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
To: Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com>
Cc: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>,
linux-man@vger.kernel.org, libc-alpha@sourceware.org,
mtk.manpages@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] makecontext.3: Fix function declarator with empty parentheses.
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2021 22:10:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v9a6hbgt.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKCAbMg3G4EAeuUhN9EQTDnrTSD0sPoH0uH1=kkpfj9qYorPdg@mail.gmail.com> (Zack Weinberg's message of "Thu, 4 Mar 2021 15:10:30 -0500")
* Zack Weinberg:
> This is actually the Austin Group’s primary rationale for deprecating
> makecontext and its relatives.
That's a bit surprising because open and fcntl have a similar problem:
the argument type before the ellipsis cannot be int.
And doesn't a later C standard add a generic function pointer type?
Thanks,
Florian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-04 21:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-04 19:45 Alejandro Colomar
2021-03-04 20:10 ` Zack Weinberg
2021-03-04 21:10 ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2021-03-05 1:13 ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2021-03-05 10:21 ` Florian Weimer
2021-03-05 10:27 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-03-05 12:48 ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
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