a question about fix-header.c

Zack Weinberg zack@codesourcery.com
Thu Jan 20 19:41:00 GMT 2005


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.

zw



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