On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 06:47:27AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: >According to Christopher Faylor on 5/14/2007 6:25 AM: >>Why do we need to export *vdprintf_r at all? Does some standard define >>it? > >Does cygwin care about providing reentrant versions of functions? >There is precedent for doing this: as an example, cygwin.din already >exports asprintf_r.
That was probably one of many ill-conceived entries in cygwin.din, then. If there is no POSIX or linux version of a function there is no reason to export it. That's one reason why we stopped performing the useless task of exporting functions with leading underscores, although like asprintf_r, I'm sure that a few of these have still crept in over the years. IMO, exporting functions like this just pollutes the namespace for very very little gain. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
