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Re: killing STDC_0_IN_SYSTEM_HEADERS
- To: law at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: killing STDC_0_IN_SYSTEM_HEADERS
- From: Paul Eggert <eggert at twinsun dot com>
- Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 14:21:48 -0800 (PST)
- CC: zack at rabi dot columbia dot edu, oliva at lsd dot ic dot unicamp dot br, ford at vss dot fsi dot com, amylaar at cygnus dot co dot uk, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, zack at blastula dot phys dot columbia dot edu
- References: <2916.947199758@upchuck>
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2000 16:02:38 -0700
From: Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com>
we really want to avoid *copying* headers if we can.
Yes, that's the main point. Copying causes real problems when people
upgrade or patch headers, which is pretty common in the Solaris world.
I'd bet searching for Paul Eggert would be a good start since I
think he played a significant role in this work.
It was RMS's idea, actually. I just wrote the code.
Does the current approach cause problems? If not, I'd leave it alone.
It's faster than wrapper files would be, and the code is simple.