Re: new module 'calloc-posix'

2007-09-03 Thread Jim Meyering
Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmm, I was hesitating, because adding runtime overhead to _all_ malloc/realloc > calls for the (rare) case of failure seems like overkill. But now I stumble > on the need to set errno = ENOMEM even in totally unsuspected modules like > 'xreadlink', so I com

Re: new module 'calloc-posix'

2007-09-03 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Bruno Haible on 9/3/2007 5:14 PM: > Hi Eric, > >> I guess the module rename would make it obvious to anyone using the old >> 'malloc' module that they now need to choose which semantics they want, >> the simpler 'malloc-gnu' or the POSIX-

Re: new module 'calloc-posix'

2007-09-03 Thread Karl Berry
> I guess the module rename would make it obvious to anyone using the old > 'malloc' module that they now need to choose which semantics they want, > the simpler 'malloc-gnu' or the POSIX-compliant 'malloc-posix'. Haven't we implicitly been assuming/providing malloc-gnu since day 1? Do

Re: new module 'calloc-posix'

2007-09-03 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi Eric, > I guess the module rename would make it obvious to anyone using the old > 'malloc' module that they now need to choose which semantics they want, > the simpler 'malloc-gnu' or the POSIX-compliant 'malloc-posix'. Yes. > On the > other hand, 'malloc-gnu' sort of implies the errno-settin

Re: autoconf enhancement for Interix

2007-09-03 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [Adding gnulib: this thread started at http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.bugs/5717] According to Eric Blake on 9/3/2007 4:50 PM: > Martin Koeppe gmx.de> writes: > > Hello Martin, > >> thanks for the link and for pointing out the

Re: new module 'calloc-posix'

2007-09-03 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Bruno Haible on 9/2/2007 5:22 PM: > Eric Blake wrote: >>> I would somewhat like this idea - it is much nicer assuming that malloc >>> reliably sets errno to ENOMEM on failure than having to patch all callers >>> of malloc to do the same. >

Re: bootstrap update from coreutils

2007-09-03 Thread Jim Meyering
Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim Meyering wrote: >> I deliberately chose to remove all wget support. >> If someone can make a really good case for reintroducing such support > > gnulib-tool's --import handling continues to use wget for the purpose of > downloading the PO files. > > The