Hide non-standard itoa/utoa() in stdlib.h or drop these functions?
Corinna Vinschen
vinschen@redhat.com
Wed Jan 31 19:08:58 GMT 2024
On Jan 22 19:46, Christian Franke wrote:
> The functions itoa() and utoa() are non-standard, not exported by Cygwin and
> also unavailable on FreeBSD and Linux (glibc and musl libc). Busybox for
> example could not be build OOTB using newlib's stdlib.h because there are
> conflicts with local functions with same names but different signatures.
>
> See the original posts on the Cygwin list for more details:
> https://sourceware.org/pipermail/cygwin/2024-January/255216.html
> https://sourceware.org/pipermail/cygwin/2024-January/255217.html
>
> Corinna proposed to either drop these functions entirely or hide the
> prototypes on Cygwin only. I attached a patch for the second alternative.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Christian
>
> From 5f1c43796c6a125f04c1f2436fc1048783ce3b7a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Christian Franke <christian.franke@t-online.de>
> Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2024 19:11:20 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] Hide itoa, utoa, __itoa and __utoa in stdlib.h on Cygwin only
>
> These functions are non-standard and not exported by Cygwin.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christian Franke <christian.franke@t-online.de>
> ---
> newlib/libc/include/stdlib.h | 4 +++-
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
Pushed.
Thanks,
Corinna
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