svn commit: r310138 - head/lib/libc/stdio

Conrad Meyer cem at freebsd.org
Wed Dec 21 02:04:40 UTC 2016


Hi Adrian,

On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 5:56 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd at gmail.com> wrote:
> Here's my reason for removal.
>
> Plenty of us are looking to be able to build bits of the BSD source
> tree as part of other non FreeBSD systems, especially if they're
> involved in bootstrapping.

Understood, however:

> That means that it needs to be compilable
> by a non-FreeBSD-modified compiler. Ideally this means we'd stick to
> mostly POSIX options source code that we can compile with unmodified
> compilers, and we push non-standard stuff into otherly-named
> functions.

Yeah, this isn't actually a problem.  printf("%b", foo) compiles fine
with non-modified compilers.

Best,
Conrad


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