a question about fix-header.c

Daniel Berlin dberlin@dberlin.org
Thu Jan 20 19:47:00 GMT 2005



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 :)

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> zw
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