Re: a question about fix-header.c

[Daniel Berlin <dberlin at dberlin dot org>]

On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Zack Weinberg wrote:

> Daniel Berlin <dberlin@dberlin.org> writes:
>
> > > You realize it's probably a lot easier to do it with builtins, anyway?
> >
> > The problem is that it's more than just free that can be attributed,
> > free is just a major player here.  So while free could be done with
> > a builtin, the other user functions obviously can't :)
>
> Anything in glibc's headers (SuS, roughly) can and should be handled
> with builtins.  Outside the domain of standards, I think it should be
> left to users to update their headers as appropriate.

Right, but again, this reqiures more than just a builtin.
If the user wants to attribute their program headers (IE this attribute 
is uesful for user written functions), we have to provide them an 
attribute to do it :)

> zw