> From: Paul Eggert [mailto:egg...@cs.ucla.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2012 9:10 AM
> To: Joachim Schmitz
> Cc: bug-gnulib@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: alloca in HP NonStop
>
> On 07/04/2012 12:05 AM, Joachim Schmitz wrote:
> > Still missing seems the detection of this b
On 07/04/2012 12:05 AM, Joachim Schmitz wrote:
> Still missing seems the detection of this by configure?
As things stand, I don't see why 'configure' needs to
detect anything. You mentioned the possibility of
it detecting but the code works fine
without needing HAVE_BUILTINS_H. So I assume this
> From: Paul Eggert [mailto:egg...@cs.ucla.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2012 7:13 PM
> To: Joachim Schmitz
> Cc: bug-gnulib@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: alloca in HP NonStop
>
> On 07/03/2012 02:56 AM, Joachim Schmitz wrote:
> > Or rather: we need that prototype before
On 07/03/2012 02:56 AM, Joachim Schmitz wrote:
> Or rather: we need that prototype before the pragma
OK, in that case we might as well not refactor.
I pushed the following instead:
---
ChangeLog |7 +++
lib/alloca.in.h |7 +++
2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 0 deletions(
> From: Joachim Schmitz [mailto:j...@schmitz-digital.de]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2012 11:54 AM
> To: 'Paul Eggert'
> Cc: 'bug-gnulib@gnu.org'
> Subject: RE: alloca in HP NonStop
>
> > From: Paul Eggert [mailto:egg...@cs.ucla.edu]
> > Sent: Tuesd
> From: Paul Eggert [mailto:egg...@cs.ucla.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2012 10:45 AM
> To: Joachim Schmitz
> Cc: bug-gnulib@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: alloca in HP NonStop
>
> On 07/02/2012 11:40 PM, Joachim Schmitz wrote:
> > I' don't quite understand, why no
On 07/02/2012 11:40 PM, Joachim Schmitz wrote:
> I' don't quite understand, why not the entire alloca.in.h is bracketed by
> this.
> At least now that it is used in 2 places?
We can't bracket the entire file, since (as far as I know)
it's not safe to put #include inside 'extern "C" { ... }'.
How
> From: Paul Eggert [mailto:egg...@cs.ucla.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2012 2:38 AM
> To: Joachim Schmitz
> Cc: bug-gnulib@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: alloca in HP NonStop
>
> On 06/28/2012 09:41 AM, Joachim Schmitz wrote:
> > Or drop it an just take the else branch.
&
On 06/28/2012 09:41 AM, Joachim Schmitz wrote:
> Or drop it an just take the else branch.
Yes, that sounds simpler. Also, how about the following
ideas for simplification:
Don't bother checking __TANDEM; _TNS_E_TARGET should suffice.
This fixes what appears to be a bug on older Tandem systems.
