[PATCH 5/5] obstack usability

[Alan Modra]

On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 07:48:21AM -0400, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 07/26/2014 01:57 AM, Alan Modra wrote:
> >When using obstack.h/c in other projects it isn't very nice that gnulib
> >headers like exitfail.h and gettext.h need to be present.  Far worse
> >is a dependency on gnulib's version of stdlib.h for __attribute_pure__
> >and _Noreturn.  This only works if a project is willing to import
> >rather a lot of gnulib configury magic
> 
> Sure, but the downside of the proposed change is that it'd break
> programs like 'grep' that require the exitfail.h etc. semantics.

Hmm, OK.

> What projects are you thinking about?  That is, what current
> non-glibc projects have copies of obstack.h and obstack.c in their
> source code, but not exitfail.h etc.?

binutils, gdb, and gcc via libiberty.  I guess we can live with a
patched obstack.[ch].

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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM