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Re: A glibc or egcs bug?
- To: Neal Becker <neal at ctd dot comsat dot com>
- Subject: Re: A glibc or egcs bug?
- From: Roland McGrath <roland at frob dot com>
- Date: Sun, 7 Dec 1997 16:04:32 -0500
- Cc: hjl at lucon dot org (H.J. Lu), egcs at cygnus dot com, libc-linux at gnu dot org (GNU C Library)
> The related question is, why are we hitting this union wait stuff at
> all, if we don't ask for -D_BSD? I thought glibc would favor POSIX in
> cases of conflict. Using the old BSD union wait is hardly ever
> needed.
This is not a case of conflict. Both can be supported without conflict (in
C). The default is to include all features that don't conflict with
POSIX-standard features.