From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Piotr Krukowiecki <piotr.krukowiecki@gmail.com>,
Junio C Hamano <junio@pobox.com>,
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
Karsten Blees <karsten.blees@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-compat-util: Avoid strcasecmp() being inlined
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 18:05:31 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130919220531.GA13723@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqy56sqxj1.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 03:03:46PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >> But only when someone compiles on MinGW, no?
> >
> > Yeah. I think a more clear way to phrase the question would be: is there
> > some trick we can use to booby-trap strcasecmp as a function pointer so
> > that it fails to compile even on systems where it would otherwise work?
>
> That line of thought nudges us toward the place Linus explicitly
> said he didn't want to see us going, no? We do not particularly
> want to care the exact nature of the breakage on MinGW. Do we
> really want to set a booby-trap that intimately knows about how
> their strcasecmp is broken, and possibly cover breakages of the same
> kind but with other functions?
Exactly. You snipped my second paragraph, but the gist of it was "...and
no, we do not want to go there". Calling it a booby-trap was meant to be
derogatory. :)
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-19 22:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-11 16:06 [PATCH] git-compat-util: Avoid strcasecmp() being inlined Sebastian Schuberth
2013-09-11 18:29 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-09-11 19:16 ` Jeff King
2013-09-19 6:04 ` Piotr Krukowiecki
[not found] ` <CAPc5daVt4Q9twub5KyOQqZHx9CwOnkuwA97sXV44fF2j1e5HVg@mail.gmail.com>
2013-09-19 9:47 ` Piotr Krukowiecki
2013-09-19 21:16 ` Jeff King
2013-09-19 22:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-09-19 22:05 ` Jeff King [this message]
2013-09-19 22:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-09-20 3:18 ` Jeff King
2013-09-20 6:21 ` Piotr Krukowiecki
2013-09-24 5:32 ` Jeff King
2013-09-11 19:59 ` Sebastian Schuberth
2013-09-11 21:41 ` Jeff King
2013-09-12 9:36 ` Sebastian Schuberth
2013-09-12 10:14 ` John Keeping
2013-09-12 15:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-09-12 18:20 ` Jeff King
2013-09-12 18:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-09-12 18:38 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-09-12 19:51 ` Sebastian Schuberth
2013-09-12 20:08 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-09-13 12:33 ` Sebastian Schuberth
2013-09-13 14:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-09-13 19:34 ` Sebastian Schuberth
2013-09-12 21:36 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-09-12 19:00 ` Jeff King
2013-09-12 19:46 ` Sebastian Schuberth
2013-09-12 20:22 ` Jeff King
2013-09-12 20:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-09-13 12:47 ` Sebastian Schuberth
2013-09-13 14:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-09-13 19:53 ` Sebastian Schuberth
2013-09-13 19:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-09-13 20:03 ` Sebastian Schuberth
2013-09-13 20:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-09-13 20:04 ` Sebastian Schuberth
2013-09-13 22:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-09-13 22:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-09-15 12:44 ` Sebastian Schuberth
2013-09-17 16:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-09-17 19:16 ` Sebastian Schuberth
2013-09-17 21:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-09-18 9:43 ` Sebastian Schuberth
2013-09-18 12:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-09-12 21:31 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-09-19 13:47 ` Sebastian Schuberth
2013-09-11 18:39 ` Junio C Hamano
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