Re: Add xdr support

[Charles Wilson <cygwin at cwilson dot fastmail dot fm>]

Dave Korn wrote:
> On 13/02/2010 23:53, Charles Wilson wrote:
> 
>> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2009-10/msg00242.html
> 
>> IIRC at that time Corinna suggested that newlib was the appropriate
>> place for this, if I wanted to contribute it post-1.7.1. 
> 
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2009-10/msg00254.html
> 
>> I asked how to
>> go about adding something to newlib that might not work for all targets,
>> and she said:
> 
>> Unfortunately, my google-foo is not strong enough to find that message
>> in the cygwin archives, 
> 
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2009-10/msg00259.html

I bow to your superior google-foo. Interesting thing from those links,
apparently *I* was the first person to mention newlib as the appropriate
home for the XDR implementation, not Corinna.  Weird.

Well, historical oddities notwithstanding, I think newlib /is/ the
correct place, simply because I can easily see a demand/need for XDR
code on other newlib targets.  But obviously the ultimate call is Jeff
J's -- although I'm not planning on even submitting it over there unless
this group decides it is the correct thing to do.

--
Chuck