On 24/08/2024 17:49, Bruno Haible wrote:
In most Gnulib modules, when we have a function that does something
and another function that does the same thing with diagnostics, the
common convention is that the latter has an 'x' prefix. Such as for
malloc — xalloc
vasprintf — xvasprintf
getc
Hi Pádraig,
Pádraig Brady writes:
> I always thought the x...() variants indicate they might eXit().
>
> Are there any other x...() variants that just output a diagnostic,
> and don't exit()?
Originally I felt the same way. Since I generally think about xmalloc,
xstrdup, which 99% of the time j
Pádraig Brady wrote:
> I always thought the x...() variants indicate they might eXit().
>
> Are there any other x...() variants that just output a diagnostic,
> and don't exit()?
Indeed, we currently have three categories of x...() variants:
- Most of them emit diagnostics and call exit (EXIT_
On 25/08/2024 11:48, Bruno Haible wrote:
Pádraig Brady wrote:
I always thought the x...() variants indicate they might eXit().
Are there any other x...() variants that just output a diagnostic,
and don't exit()?
Indeed, we currently have three categories of x...() variants:
- Most of them
On 2024-08-24 09:05, Bruno Haible wrote:
So, when we have a conditional that tests for GCC >= 4.7 or 10 or 14,
we don't need to exclude clang, because it's already excluded.
Weird. I can no longer reproduce the problem with clang. So I undid that
change. If the problem happens again I'll be mo
