From: Christian Franke <Christian.Franke@t-online.de>
To: newlib@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Hide non-standard itoa/utoa() in stdlib.h or drop these functions?
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2024 15:17:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <15262111-fb6b-41a4-9da6-9533b7a98f16@t-online.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Zbega_5suC86to9N@calimero.vinschen.de>
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jan 28 13:52, Christian Franke wrote:
>> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>>>>>> [...]
>>>>>> Does anybody actually *need* itoa/utoa as long as we have __itoa/__utoa?
>>>>> [...]
>>> The problem is that _GNU_SOURCE got synonymous for "everything and the
>>> kitchen sink", and there's no blessed way around that other than
>>> defining another source standard instead.
>> My interpretation was "everything and the kitchen sink - except everything
>> never provided by glibc or Linux" :-)
>>
>>> Do we really want to create our own kind of "this is
>>> non-standard"-standard?
>>>
>>> That would be something like __NEWLIB_VISIBLE / _NEWLIB_SOURCE.
>>>
>>> But, then again, for just two seldom used APIs?
>> The API is seldom used, possibly not or no longer well known and definitely
>> unavailable in widely used other C libs. This increases the risk of a
>> conflict with local functions with the same name. Busybox is a real world
>> example.
> I never doubted that. My question is NOT how we can keep itoa/utoa
> alive and striving. I think we have really only two ways of going
> forward:
>
> #if __CYGWIN__'ize itoa/utoa prototypes in stdlib.h, but DO NOT
> #if __CYGWIN__'ize __itoa/__utoa, because they are living in
> reserved namespace anyway
The DO NOT branch would only make real sense if Cygwin would provide the
__*() functions, As this is not the case, my patch disables also these
prototypes.
...
> or
>
> drop the definitions of itoa/utoa from itoa.c and utoa.c, drop the
> prototypes from stdlib.h, but NEITHER drop __itoa/__utoa from
> the source files NOR drop their prototypes.
>
> I favor the second approach, but if we can't get this sorted out
> within the next two days, we'll go ahead with the first approach.
>
>
> Corinna
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-01-29 14:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-01-22 18:46 Christian Franke
2024-01-23 9:03 ` Corinna Vinschen
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2024-01-23 16:05 ` Fw: " C Howland
2024-01-23 21:41 ` brian.inglis
2024-01-24 9:42 ` Christian Franke
2024-01-24 11:16 ` Corinna Vinschen
2024-01-24 18:08 ` brian.inglis
2024-01-28 12:52 ` Christian Franke
2024-01-29 12:56 ` Corinna Vinschen
2024-01-29 14:17 ` Christian Franke [this message]
2024-01-29 15:31 ` Corinna Vinschen
2024-01-31 19:08 ` Corinna Vinschen
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