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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: MinGW build failure for GDB 8.2.90 with source-highlight
Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2019 20:13:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83ef7ibfzb.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a1052036b5ace1d67f905d8ce61e0086@polymtl.ca> (message from Simon	Marchi on Thu, 07 Mar 2019 11:59:47 -0500)

> Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2019 11:59:47 -0500
> From: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> 
> Since there are problems to fix with open on mingw (according to [1]), I 
> think it's fine that gnulib provides replacements.

For calls into the C runtime, sure.  But I don't think they can
replace the methods reflected to C++, because libstdc++ will call the
C runtime against which it was linked, at least on MS-Windows.

> Undefining the macros seems dangerous too, if you actually use the 
> "open" function from the C standard library on a system where it is 
> buggy, you want to end up with gnulib's fixed version...

There's no such call in source-cache.c, AFAICS.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-03-07 20:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-03-07 14:36 Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-07 16:59 ` Simon Marchi
2019-03-07 17:11   ` Pedro Alves
2019-03-07 18:09     ` Simon Marchi
2019-03-07 18:20       ` Pedro Alves
2019-03-07 18:24         ` Simon Marchi
2019-03-07 20:29         ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-07 20:13   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-03-11 14:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-12  2:31   ` Simon Marchi
2019-03-12 10:52     ` Pedro Alves
2019-03-12 13:43       ` Simon Marchi
2019-03-12 15:49     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-12 16:29       ` Simon Marchi
2019-03-12 17:53         ` Eli Zaretskii

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