On Aug 17 22:44, Pedro Izecksohn wrote: > --- Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > > For this patch, given that it is just a bunch of rather obvious > > defines, I don't think we have to treat the patch as significant. > > I do not think that these macros are obvious. I think that I was > there when these macros were first implemented at 1987: I talked with > the programmer who was paid by the Correios to port everything from > the mainframe to the Apple II. I was a stenchy kid with his father, > that asked the employee what he was doing. When I asked about other > possibilities of endianness, the programmer answered about the PDP. > The programmer explained about BSD being a flavor of Unix. That talk > changed my life. > > > However, please don't use _BSD_SOURCE. The newlib/Cygwin headers are > > not set up like the Linux headers and the big bunch of definitions from > > /usr/include/features.h are not available so far. The _BSD_SOURCE > > define is not honored or set anywhere right now. > > > > What you can do is to use _POSIX_SOURCE. So, if you're going to use > > #ifndef _POSIX_SOURCE instead, and if you're creating a ChangeLog entry > > in the correct ChangeLog entry format (see the ChangeLog file), then > > I guess we can check it in. > > Would you agree with: > > #if defined _BSD_SOURCE || ! defined _POSIX_SOURCE
Ok. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
