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Re: Other ISO C TR / TS / standard optional APIs
- From: Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>
- To: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 13:51:08 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: Re: Other ISO C TR / TS / standard optional APIs
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> * C11 Annex K (bounds-checking interfaces). I don't think there were
> particularly strong objections to supporting these, possibly in a separate
> libc_s.so, but no great liking for them either (and the discussion of a
> patch submission a while back died down without revised resubmission).
Definite no for including in libc.so directly.
Probable no for implementing them at all, based on previous discussion.