[RFC PATCH] Deprecate _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE.

[Zack Weinberg]

On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 2:51 PM, Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> wrote
>> This updated patch takes care of that and also the discussion in
>> creature.texi.  (creature.texi needs a thorough overhaul, but let's not
>> worry about that now.)  Also, it's been tested on x86-64-linux.
>
> From a high level I support _anything_ that gets rid of _REENTRANT which is
> by itself a conceptually flawed name [1].
>
> The second version which fixes libc-symbols.h and check-installed-headers.sh
> looks better, but I agree with Jopseh and Florian that it should not warn
> for the variety of reasons already listed (compiler defaults being the
> most important).
>
> It looks like you have consensus on the change done by v2 patch but with
> the warning disabled?

OK, I'm going to go ahead and land the revision I posted this morning
<https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-12/msg00272.html> which has
the warning removed.

zw