From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8309 invoked by alias); 1 Oct 2012 18:13:48 -0000 Received: (qmail 8297 invoked by uid 22791); 1 Oct 2012 18:13:47 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_NO X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from rock.gnat.com (HELO rock.gnat.com) (205.232.38.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 01 Oct 2012 18:13:43 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0186F1C780E; Mon, 1 Oct 2012 14:13:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rock.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rock.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id oOIp69raFq5l; Mon, 1 Oct 2012 14:13:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4B9F1C77C9; Mon, 1 Oct 2012 14:13:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2F48EC6DDC; Mon, 1 Oct 2012 20:13:38 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2012 18:13:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: Jan Kratochvil Cc: Eli Zaretskii , gdb@sourceware.org, siddhesh@redhat.com Subject: Re: Old OSes compatibility [Re: 64-bit (>4GB) inferior data types rules; TYPE_LENGTH: unsigned -> ULONGEST] Message-ID: <20121001181338.GI30746@adacore.com> References: <20120928173229.GA10406@host2.jankratochvil.net> <20120930165630.GA30746@adacore.com> <20121001164833.GA20592@host2.jankratochvil.net> <83d312ayjy.fsf@gnu.org> <20121001175455.GA3955@host2.jankratochvil.net> <20121001175736.GH30746@adacore.com> <20121001180756.GA4573@host2.jankratochvil.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20121001180756.GA4573@host2.jankratochvil.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2012-10/txt/msg00012.txt.bz2 > That's true gnulib does not check for %z. But whole .microsoft.com does not > mention vasprintf so I believe it would get substituted by gnulib there. Microsoft is only one example of such systems, however. We cannot use this example to say that the %z check is unnecessary for all systems. -- Joel