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Re: nonstrings in Glibc
On Tue, 21 Nov 2017, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> No, that's not right. The top-level bits directory contains _fallback_
> bits headers, to be used only if no sysdeps directory overrides them;
> I don't know why it's in the top level instead of in sysdeps/generic
> (which is where you'd expect it to be) but it's probably something
> horrible to do with the include search path.
Moved by Roland in:
commit c72565e5f1124c2dc72573e83406fe999e56091f
Author: Roland McGrath <roland@gnu.org>
Date: Thu Dec 22 03:12:10 2005 +0000
2005-12-21 Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
* sysdeps/generic/bits: Subdirectory and all files moved to ...
* bits: ... here, new subdirectory.
* Makeconfig (+includes): Reordered includes to put build and sysdeps
dirs first after $(..)include, $(sysincludes) last.
* sysdeps/generic/bits: Subdirectory and all files moved to ...
* bits: ... here, new subdirectory.
* Makeconfig (+includes): Reordered includes to put build and sysdeps
dirs first after $(..)include, $(sysincludes) last.
(I don't know why, however.)
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