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Re: [PATCH 1/2] BZ#13743: PowerPC - Add a new header for platformspecific functions
On Wed, 7 Mar 2012, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 18:23, Carlos O'Donell <carlos@systemhalted.org> wrote:
> > Is your suggestion something along the lines of sys/ppc-platform.h then?
>
> Yes. For those broken embedded platforms it might even make sense to
> create a subdir in /usr/include or /usr/include/sys for all the files
> which will likely turn up.
I see no reason to consider a platform "broken" just because some
platform-specific functionality is useful; special headers such as
sys/io.h, sys/debugreg.h and sys/vm86.h don't make x86 "broken".
In discussion on the glibc mailing lists we should all maintain a civil
standard of discourse that is respectful of the wide range of uses
different people may wish to make of the library. This includes avoiding
dismissing platforms as "broken" like that. If a particular feature of a
particular platform causes problems in a particular case, identifying (in
a neutral way) the feature and why it causes problems can help encourage
and educate contributors and community members rather than discouraging
them.
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Joseph S. Myers
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