From: Jonathan Wakely <jwakely@redhat.com>
To: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: newlib@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ctype: use less short names in public header
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2021 12:18:27 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YaYWkyTv4eFSPr9m@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YYsPwCJzVRgjirMr@vapier>
On 09/11/21 19:18 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>On 09 Nov 2021 12:38, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> On Nov 8 20:24, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> > We're seeing a build failure in GNU sim code which is using _P locally
>> > but the ctype.h define clashes with it. Rename these to use the same
>> > symbols that glibc does. They're a bit more verbose, but seems likely
>> > that we'll have fewer conflicts if glibc isn't seeing them.
>> ^^^^^
>> Mixing newlib and glibc? That's just a typo, I guess?
>
>i meant glibc here. these are the same symbol names that glibc is using,
>and it's not seeing conflicts in the wider ecosystem. so if they aren't
>seeing issues, it's likely newlib won't either if it uses the same names.
There's a reason you don't see conflicts with those names:
They are reserved names, just like _P.
Any user code that conflicts with those names has a bug and needs
fixing.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-30 12:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-07 0:21 what's up with _COMPILING_NEWLIB Mike Frysinger
2021-11-08 10:05 ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-11-08 11:46 ` Mike Frysinger
2021-11-08 15:05 ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-11-08 18:14 ` Mike Frysinger
2021-11-09 1:24 ` [PATCH 1/2] define _COMPILING_NEWLIB for all targets when compiling Mike Frysinger
2021-11-09 1:24 ` [PATCH 2/2] ctype: use less short names in public header Mike Frysinger
2021-11-09 11:38 ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-11-10 0:18 ` Mike Frysinger
2021-11-10 10:56 ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-11-30 12:18 ` Jonathan Wakely [this message]
2021-11-11 1:37 ` [PATCH v2] " Mike Frysinger
2021-11-11 10:35 ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-11-11 22:28 ` Mike Frysinger
2021-11-12 10:27 ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-11-20 20:08 ` Brian Inglis
2021-11-23 15:09 ` [PATCH 2/2] " Richard Earnshaw
2021-11-24 4:15 ` Mike Frysinger
2021-11-24 10:58 ` Richard Earnshaw
2021-11-24 11:01 ` Richard Earnshaw
2021-11-30 12:01 ` Jonathan Wakely
2021-11-30 15:14 ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-11-30 17:12 ` Jonathan Wakely
2021-11-30 17:15 ` Jonathan Wakely
2021-11-30 17:52 ` Richard Earnshaw
2021-12-02 10:27 ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-12-03 9:56 ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-12-05 9:42 ` Mike Frysinger
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