Re: Definition of __USE_MISC?

[Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>]

On 10/26/2017 10:55 AM, Sebastian Huber wrote:
> On 17/10/17 14:01, Florian Weimer wrote:
> > > > > Would it be possible to change the guard in glibc to __USE_MISC?
> > > >
> > > > Yes, it should be a simple change.  I was worried about the long 
> > > > long part initially, but we have precedent for using long long under 
> > > > __USE_MISC (strtouq in <stdlib.h>).
> > > >
> > > > Patch attached. 
> > >
> > > What are the opinions with respect to this patch? The ffsl() and 
> > > ffsll() are BSD visible in FreeBSD,  DragonFlyBSD, some Mac OS X and 
> > > musl. They are not available in OpenBSD and NetBSD.
> >
> > Unless there are objects, I'm going to check this in later this week. 
>
> I think there were no objections.

Thanks for the reminder.  I have now pushed the change.

> Which documentation parts need an update? Only the man page in
>
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/tree/man3/ffs.3
>
> ?

Yes, the GNU manual does not document ffsl/ffsll at all, so no update is 
needed.  Will you contact Michael about the change?

Thanks,
Florian