* Zack Weinberg via Gcc:
> I’m the closest thing Autoconf has to a lead maintainer at present.
>
> It’s come to my attention (via https://lwn.net/Articles/913505/ and
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/PortingToModernC) that GCC and
> Clang both plan to disable several “legacy” C language fe
* Rich Felker:
> I've been writing/complaining about autoconf doing this wrong for
> decades, with the best writeup around 9 years ago at
> https://ewontfix.com/13/. Part of the reason is that this has bitten
> musl libc users over and over again due to configure finding symbols
> that were intend
* Paul Eggert:
> On 2022-11-14 04:41, Aaron Ballman wrote:
>> it's generally a problem when autoconf relies on invalid
>> language constructs
>
> Autoconf *must* rely on invalid language constructs, if only to test
> whether the language constructs work. And Clang therefore must be
> careful abou
* H. J. Lu:
> I am proposing to update Intel386, x86-64 and IA MCU psABIs to specify
> how to pass/return empty struct:
>
> 1. "collection". A collection is a structure, union or C++ class.
> 2. "empty collection". An empty collection is:
>a. A collection without member. Or
>b. A collec
* H. J. Lu:
>> Any syntactical array argument (at the C level) is should be passed as
>> a pointer. The language appears to change that.
>
> I didn't use aggregate so that array is excluded here.
>
>> For 2., static members and non-data members do not count.
>
> They do count here. That is why I
* H. J. Lu:
>> I tested GCC 5.3.1 and Clang 3.5.0.
>>
>> GCC Clang
>> s0 non-emptynon-empty
>> s1 non-emptyempty
>> s2 non-emptyempty
>> s3 emptyempty
>> s4 emptyempty
>> s5 non-emptyempty
>>
>> I believe s3, s4, s5 are non-empty according
* H. J. Lu:
> I created a mailing list to discuss Linux specific,.processor independent
> modification and extension of generic System V Application Binary Interface:
>
> https://groups.google.com/d/forum/linux-abi
>
> I will start to document existing Linux extensions, like STT_GNU_IFUNC.
> I wil
* H. J. Lu:
> On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 11:32 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> * H. J. Lu:
>>
>>> I created a mailing list to discuss Linux specific,.processor independent
>>> modification and extension of generic System V Application Binary Interface:
>>>
>>> https://groups.google.com/d/forum/linux-abi
