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Re: [Patch] Fix PRI_MACROS_BROKEN undef warnings.
- From: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at redhat dot com>
- To: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh at redhat dot com>, Will Newton <will dot newton at linaro dot org>
- Cc: Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>, Steve Ellcey <sellcey at mips dot com>, libc-alpha <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 05:05:36 -0400
- Subject: Re: [Patch] Fix PRI_MACROS_BROKEN undef warnings.
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On 04/29/2014 03:48 AM, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 08:27:55AM +0100, Will Newton wrote:
>> I created this page on the wiki in an attempt to understand which
>> files come from where:
>>
>> https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/SharedSourceFiles
>>
>> I haven't had chance to do any detailed analysis yet but hopefully it's a start.
>
> I think we have agreed in the past the malloc and resolv sources have
> diverged sufficiently from the original sources to make merging a very
> difficult exercise. Following that, Ondrej also made some formatting
> changes in the malloc code so that it reads similar to the rest of
> glibc sources.
>
> So those two blocks could be dropped from the shared source files
> list, unless you want to keep them there for reference.
I suggest they stay as reference, but that's all.
We are going to own malloc and resolv going forward.
Either we replace them wholesale later or keep using our heavily
modified versions.
Cheers,
Carlos.