Re: [PATCH] glibc 64-bit obstack support

2014-07-28 Thread Alan Modra
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 12:36:21PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote: > This is definitely not going to make it into glibc-2.20, so you might want > to wait until we're out of release freeze to worry too much about the > glibc-oriented bits. That's fine. I figured the patch wasn't 2.20 material. I cop

Re: [PATCH 1/5] obstack tidy

2014-07-28 Thread Alan Modra
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 12:31:00PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote: > > a) Delete nonsense about "not polluting the namespace with stddef.h > > symbols" since string.h includes stddef.h a little later anyway. > > If you are talking specifically about the glibc implementation's string.h, > then you are

Re: [PATCH] glibc 64-bit obstack support

2014-07-28 Thread Roland McGrath
This is definitely not going to make it into glibc-2.20, so you might want to wait until we're out of release freeze to worry too much about the glibc-oriented bits. Meanwhile, you can iron out your other cleanups with gnulib folks. For glibc you need to do some more work to make the provision of

Re: [PATCH 1/5] obstack tidy

2014-07-28 Thread Roland McGrath
> a) Delete nonsense about "not polluting the namespace with stddef.h > symbols" since string.h includes stddef.h a little later anyway. If you are talking specifically about the glibc implementation's string.h, then you are confused. glibc's string.h complies with the C and POSIX standards, and