On 10/29/2014 09:35 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: > Alan Modra wrote: > >> One thing though, I didn't put the ChangeLog diffs in the patch as I >> usually add them when committing. > > Oh, I missed that. I added them now. For Gnulib it's better to put > them into the patch. > >> It is no longer possible to shrink an obstack with obstack_blank (but >> you can still do that with obstack_blank_fast). > > Ouch, I hadn't noticed that. That's an incompatible change and I expect > it will break real-world usage for no particularly good reason, so we > really need to fix this. How about making the 2nd argument to > obstack_blank and obstack_blank_fast be of type ptrdiff_t rather than > size_t?
It breaks GNU M4, for a starter :) But at least we predicted that it would happen, and I'm hoping the fallback of obstack_blank_fast does the job. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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