elm 2.5.3 and glibc 2.1.93

H . J . Lu hjl@lucon.org
Fri Sep 22 09:16:00 GMT 2000


On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 05:52:01PM +0200, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> Initially we used to save/restore errno, later we noticed that this is
> not needed.  All new code (at least code that Ulrich and I recently
> added) doesn't save/restore errno - only older code does.  I agree, we
> should unify this, but so far nobody spoke up.
> 

I think it is a bad idea. If we believe it is ok not to save/restore
errno, we should do it for all functions. I can provide a patch if
we are 100% sure that it is ok to do so.

H.J.


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