Re: AIX atomicity.h support

[Phil Edwards <pedwards at disaster dot jaj dot com>]

Well, of the problems you mentioned, let's talk ctype for a moment,
or more generally, libio.

AIX and Solaris are suffering from the same problem:  glibc/libio includes
a header and assumes that certain types are defined in that header.
If libio from glibc 2.2 is going to be used, then IMHO the easiest fix
("easiest" == "smallest number of changes") is to provide that header
on non-Linux systems.  Again, IMHO.

Actually, we'd have to provide a slightly modified version of that header,
since it includes other headers which we couldn't depend on, etc.

Since this was the approach that got me a hacked-up version working
under Solaris, I'd be willing to work on this.  But it needs a decision
from the Hivemind first:  do we want to add a sys/cdefs.h to v3?  Are we
continuing to use libio?  (I've seen things that would seem to indicate
that we aren't...?)


Phil

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