>Tell that to the config files. It was added to darwin's config file,
>presumably because we supported the functionality it enabled.
I guess there are a number of things this sentence could mean. Based on the
juxtaposition of -D_GNU_SOURCE with -D_BSD_SOURCE and -D_DARWIN_C_SOURCE, this
suggests that the Darwin C library responds to _GNU_SOURCE being defined by
providing all those GNU-specific facilities. Do you know? Is the Darwin C
library supposed to provide a superset of the GNU C library?
Some people do like to put the definition of these source type declarations on
the compile command (-D) instead of in the source file itself (#define). I
tend to think it's because they don't understand what the macro is for, but it
could also be because it's more convenient in some ways.
But another reason -D_GNU_SOURCE is in the Darwin config file might be that
someone noticed its incorrect use in strtod.c and exploited it.
Whatever the reason, "if _GNU_SOURCE" evidently cannot just be replaced with
"if __GLIBC__", but has to be "if __GLIBC__ or __APPLE__" and if there are
another other platforms that do -D_GNU_SOURCE but aren't using either the GNU
or Apple C libraries, those have to be added in there too to avoid a
regression.
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Bryan Henderson San Jose, California
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