Re: [platform-testers] new snapshot available: grep-2.20.72-d512

2014-10-31 Thread Jim Meyering
On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 8:05 AM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 10/29/2014 12:29 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: >> Thanks to many fixes and improvements by Paul Eggert and Norihiro Tanaka, >> here is a pre-release snapshot: >> >> grep snapshot: >> http://meyering.net/grep/grep-ss.tar.xz 1.2 MB > > You pro

Re: [PATCH 0/5] obstacks again

2014-10-31 Thread Paul Eggert
Eric Blake wrote: Can we use ssize_t instead of size_t for obstack_blank_fast? Not portably, no. ssize_t need not be the same width as size_t. As I understand it, ssize_t was partly invented to support platforms where 'read' took a 64-bit size_t argument and returned a 32-bit signed result -

Re: [PATCH 0/5] obstacks again

2014-10-31 Thread Eric Blake
On 10/31/2014 01:50 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: > On 10/29/2014 11:07 PM, Alan Modra wrote: >> So there are my reasons for leaving obstack_blank as is. > > Thanks, they're persuasive. With that in mind, I have a minor complaint > about obstack_blank_fast's revised documentation. It says "You can use

latest pot file

2014-10-31 Thread Yasuaki Taniguchi/谷口康明
Hello, I'm translating some GNU packages po files. The pot file of gnulib on Translation Project is too old, and many fuzzy messages appear in many packages that import gnulib. Would you please upload latest pot file to Translation Project Server? Thanks in advance, -- Yasuaki Taniguchi (谷口康明)

Re: [PATCH 0/5] obstacks again

2014-10-31 Thread Paul Eggert
On 10/29/2014 11:07 PM, Alan Modra wrote: So there are my reasons for leaving obstack_blank as is. Thanks, they're persuasive. With that in mind, I have a minor complaint about obstack_blank_fast's revised documentation. It says "You can use @code{obstack_blank_fast} with a negative size ar

[PATCH 1/2] linkat: replace on OS X 10.10

2014-10-31 Thread Pádraig Brady
* m4/linkat.m4 (gl_FUNC_LINKAT): linkat() is available on Yosemite but not usable because it doesn't support creating hardlinks to symlinks. Therefore add a generic test for this capability and replace with our emulation if needed. --- ChangeLog|8 m4/linkat.m4 | 22 +++

Re: [PATCH 2/2] linkat: remove a redundant configure time check

2014-10-31 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 10/31/2014 06:25 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: > * m4/linkat.m4 (gl_FUNC_LINKAT): The compile check for AT_SYMLINK_FOLLOW > was rundundant for a few reasons. It was present to support compiling > on new systems but running on the old narrow window of Linux 2.6.1[67]. > It setup and cleaned up test f

Re: [PATCH 1/2] linkat: replace on OS X 10.10

2014-10-31 Thread Pádraig Brady
I'll have to redo this one to use more of the !HAVE_LINKAT emulation in this case

[PATCH 2/2] linkat: remove a redundant configure time check

2014-10-31 Thread Pádraig Brady
* m4/linkat.m4 (gl_FUNC_LINKAT): The compile check for AT_SYMLINK_FOLLOW was rundundant for a few reasons. It was present to support compiling on new systems but running on the old narrow window of Linux 2.6.1[67]. It setup and cleaned up test files which weren't actually used. On non __linux__ it

Re: [PATCH 3/5] 64-bit obstack support, part 1

2014-10-31 Thread Alan Modra
On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 12:52:29PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote: > It would be easier to review if you separated the very trivial changes from > the others. The size_t change is clearly fine and can be approved quickly. > The refactoring requires more attention. Split as requested and attached. -

Re: [PATCH 2/5] obstack tidy part 2

2014-10-31 Thread Alan Modra
On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 12:51:11PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote: > > a) Don't be concerned about "not polluting the namespace with stddef.h > >symbols" in obstack.h, since gnulib string.h includes stddef.h > >anyway, and it seems unlikely that anyone would care. > > libc is where this sort

Re: [platform-testers] new snapshot available: grep-2.20.72-d512

2014-10-31 Thread Eric Blake
On 10/29/2014 12:29 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: > Thanks to many fixes and improvements by Paul Eggert and Norihiro Tanaka, > here is a pre-release snapshot: > > grep snapshot: > http://meyering.net/grep/grep-ss.tar.xz 1.2 MB You probably want to fix your process for sending these mails; 'rele

Re: [PATCH 2/5] obstack tidy part 2

2014-10-31 Thread Roland McGrath
> a) Don't be concerned about "not polluting the namespace with stddef.h >symbols" in obstack.h, since gnulib string.h includes stddef.h >anyway, and it seems unlikely that anyone would care. libc is where this sort of constraint is most likely to be important. I doubt gnulib users care.

Re: [PATCH 1/5] obstack tidy part 1

2014-10-31 Thread Roland McGrath
Looks OK from the libc side.

Re: [PATCH 3/5] 64-bit obstack support, part 1

2014-10-31 Thread Roland McGrath
It would be easier to review if you separated the very trivial changes from the others. The size_t change is clearly fine and can be approved quickly. The refactoring requires more attention.