Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: quotation characters]

2005-06-23 Thread Paul Eggert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl Berry) writes: > Here are rms's comments on our draft about the quote character stuff. > > 1) I don't know how to address his problem with "domain at hand", please help? How about changing this: Sticking to the ASCII character set (plain text, 7-bit characters) is

Re: FYI: Minor patch to glob_.h

2005-06-23 Thread Paul Eggert
Derek Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Do you want me to keep sending FYI's to this list for this sort of minor > change? Yes, please. ___ bug-gnulib mailing list bug-gnulib@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnulib

Re: stat and lstat should define their replacements

2005-06-23 Thread Paul Eggert
Derek Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I can install it if no one has any further objections. Please install it in gnulib; it looks good to me. Thanks for following up on it. ___ bug-gnulib mailing list bug-gnulib@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mail

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: quotation characters]

2005-06-23 Thread Karl Berry
Here are rms's comments on our draft about the quote character stuff. 1) I don't know how to address his problem with "domain at hand", please help? 2) I hope that if I point the "preferably", and that gcc is using '...', and that the rest of the world thinks ' is the standard, he will let

canon-host.c disagreement (gnulib vs coreutils); zero initializers

2005-06-23 Thread Paul Eggert
I noticed the following disagreement between gnulib and coreutils: --- gnulib/lib/canon-host.c 2005-05-13 23:03:57 -0700 +++ cu/lib/canon-host.c 2005-05-14 00:58:06 -0700 @@ -54,8 +54,9 @@ canon_host (char const *host) #if HAVE_GETADDRINFO { -struct addrinfo hint = { 0 }; +struct

Re: warning: comparison is always false due to limited range of data type

2005-06-23 Thread Jim Meyering
Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It will take a while for this fix to propagate, though. In the > meantime, why not modify the definition of xalloc_oversized(n,s) to > always return 0 if if s is a constant and if the size of n is such > that the comparison cannot possibly fail. Something

Re: libtool 2.1a failed mdemo-make.test on Solaris

2005-06-23 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
[ this thread starts at http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool/2005-06/msg00169.html ] Hi Sven, others, * Sven Verdoolaege wrote on Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 09:11:36AM CEST: > On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 08:31:48AM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > > It's this version that fails on solaris. > > >

Re: new warnings in mktime.c

2005-06-23 Thread Paul Eggert
Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Anyway, I installed this patch into coreutils. Can you please try it >> with your GCC? If it pacifies your GCC I'll propagate it into gnulib >> and glibc. > > It does. Thanks! OK, I installed it. I also started the ball rolling on propagating the ch