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From: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
To: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Git head build problem (popcountl vs. system headers)
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 20:36:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130425183655.GA983@mail.duskware.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51796350.9080306@twiddle.net>

On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 06:09:36PM +0100, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On 2013-04-25 14:38, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> >><strings.h> is the K&R header supplanted by ISO <string.h>.
> >>Is there any good reason that we're including it at all?
> >
> >- <strings.h> is a portable SUS/POSIX header:
> >
> >http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/strings.h.html
> 
> Huh.  Ok, fine, but what do we think we're using out of it that
> isn't in <string.h>?

Ok, I can fix the namespace issue (which is real) easily.
But this still leaves two questions open:

 - why not use an unsigned return value for your homegrown version?
 - would it be preferable to use official/optimized versions if
   available?

Thanks,

Martin

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-04-25 18:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-25  6:47 [Qemu-devel] Git head build problem (popcountl vs. system headers) Martin Husemann
2013-04-25 10:36 ` Richard Henderson
2013-04-25 13:38   ` Laszlo Ersek
2013-04-25 17:09     ` Richard Henderson
2013-04-25 17:39       ` Eric Blake
2013-04-25 18:36       ` Martin Husemann [this message]
2013-04-25 18:48         ` Peter Maydell
2013-04-27 18:50         ` Martin Husemann
2013-05-05 12:29           ` Blue Swirl

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