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Re: add strnlen to libiberty (was Re: Assembly output optimisations)
On Mon, 6 Aug 2012, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 10:44 PM, Dimitrios Apostolou <jimis@gmx.net> wrote:
> >
> > What else is missing to make this patch appropriate for libiberty? Should I
> > change the prolog in strnlen.c, since I only copied it intact from gnulib?
>
> We generally try to avoid straight GPL source code without runtime
> exception in libiberty, and I don't see a reason to bend that rule for
> this trivial function.
Just don't forget that libiberty isn't a target library anymore.
To wit, the (GCC) run-time exception is moot for that code, AFAIK.
Maybe enough reason to abandon that rule so its code can be
truly and freely shared between GNU projects.
brgds, H-P