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On Tue 11 Mar 2014 18:58:30 Michael Kerrisk wrote: > On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 5:49 PM, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote: > > On 03/11/2014 09:33 AM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > >> I have no specific examples to cite. > > > > Likewise for most developers of portable software, which is why this is a > > non-issue for them. Feature-test macros don't suffice for portable > > software, and typically aren't even helpful; they mostly just get in the > > way.. > > Well, given that perspective, why go through the current effort trying > to tidy things up/ you mean on the glibc side ? because the C library needs to support a variety of standards, and if someone says they need a specific level of conformance, it'd be better that we don't leak in other things (and in some cases, leaking extra stuff would violate the standard requested). -mike
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