linux libio status

Jason Merrill jason@cygnus.com
Thu Oct 16 15:19:00 GMT 1997


>>>>> Peter Seebach <seebs@monolith.solon.com> writes:

> In message < u9oh4q46ox.fsf@yorick.cygnus.com >, Jason Merrill writes:
>> That's why we define __need_NULL.  That tells the gcc stddef.h that we only
>> want the definition of NULL, and nothing else.

> Isn't that an order of magnitude more complicated than providing
> <null.h>, and having everything that needs NULL include it?

Do you also want to provide <size_t.h>, <ptrdiff_t.h>, <wchar_t.h> and
<wint_t.h>?  It doesn't seem excessively complicated to me, since the user
doesn't have to deal with it and we only have to do it once.

Jason



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