iana added a comment.

In D140250#4081044 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D140250#4081044>, @aaron.ballman 
wrote:

> In D140250#4081009 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D140250#4081009>, @iana wrote:
>
>> In D140250#4080990 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D140250#4080990>, @rsmith wrote:
>>
>>> Wait a second... if an OS wants only `NULL`, we already have a supported 
>>> way of achieving that, which is compatible with GCC and glibc and other 
>>> POSIX compilers -- define `__need_NULL` before including the header.
>>>
>>> We shouldn't be providing internal headers with `__mangled_names` for OSes 
>>> to include, those should be implementation details.
>>
>> You can't do that with modules though, `#define __need_NULL #include 
>> <stddef.h>` doesn't work.
>
> Also, from the patch summary: ` i.e. in POSIX headers that are required to 
> define NULL but not the rest of stddef.h.` -- I don't think `__need_NULL` 
> works for this because it gets you `NULL` but it also gets you the rest of 
> the stddef.h header, right?

Once you set one of the `__need` macros, then stddef.h will //only// give you 
those definitions. (Or I'm interpreting the file gravely wrong... it's kind of 
a weird header and its customizations don't really work with modules either.)


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