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Re: indent 1.10.0 and glibc 2.1.1
- To: Carlo Wood <carlo@runaway.xs4all.nl>
- Subject: Re: indent 1.10.0 and glibc 2.1.1
- From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
- Date: 18 Jun 1999 23:37:12 -0700
- Cc: libc-alpha@sourceware.cygnus.com, Mike Castle <dalgoda@ix.netcom.com>, egcs-bugs@egcs.cygnus.com, bug-glibc@gnu.org
- References: <19990617001241.A15022@thune.netcom.com> <1681.929731210@upchuck.cygnus.com> <19990618235611.A16668@thune.netcom.com> <u8zp1wd7rl.fsf@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>
- Reply-To: drepper@cygnus.com (Ulrich Drepper)
Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de> writes:
> Now the glibc part. Is there any chance that we can guard our inline
> string functions against such defines? Or do we declare such programs
> as broken?
The latter. Memcpy is a standard function which must be available and
only the system is allowed to define macros shadowing the declaration.
If the program does it it is not ISo C compliant and everything can
happen.
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