From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1KUL52-0003y0-9c for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Aug 2008 08:40:28 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KUL50-0003xJ-Gb for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Aug 2008 08:40:26 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KUL4y-0003w4-BB for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Aug 2008 08:40:24 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=57908 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KUL4w-0003vn-R7 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Aug 2008 08:40:23 -0400 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]:35328) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KUL4w-0007S3-9d for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Aug 2008 08:40:22 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KUKwW-0008T2-Vk for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Aug 2008 14:31:41 +0200 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KUL3k-0001t8-3a for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Aug 2008 14:39:08 +0200 Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2008 14:39:08 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20080816123908.GF6334@thorin> References: <1218888325.4051.17.camel@fz.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1218888325.4051.17.camel@fz.local> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: [RFC] Is it okay to just use GNU extensions or should an alternative be provided too? X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2008 12:40:27 -0000 On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 02:05:25PM +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote: > I just talked with Marco on IRC. > > I have just used asprintf in one of my patches, but now I discovered: > http://grub.enbug.org/BuildingOnNonGnu > > So I became a bit unsure now if it's okay to just use asprintf. IIRC, asprintf is widely available. At least it's present on *BSD. > I doubt it would be good to use many `#ifdef _GNU_SOURCE' in the code. _GNU_SOURCE is used to tell Glibc to enable GNU extensions. When you want to check from Glibc whether you're on Glibc, __GLIBC__ indicates that. But using autoconf checks is better anyway. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."