Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2014 10:39:15 -0500 From: Pedro Giffuni <pfg@freebsd.org> To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, Bruce Simpson <bms@fastmail.net>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r268943 - in head: include lib/libc/stdlib Message-ID: <6A2B0200-EB23-459B-8E3F-6B1151C90D0E@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <65378493-7F05-4314-9809-E689891F6067@gmail.com> References: <201407211522.s6LFMnQo084633@svn.freebsd.org> <53CD430F.5040604@fastmail.net> <68E8EDB9-64DE-4037-9047-C8BEAD86801A@freebsd.org> <65378493-7F05-4314-9809-E689891F6067@gmail.com>
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Il giorno 03/ago/2014, alle ore 09:27, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> ha scritto: > > On Jul 21, 2014, at 12:51 PM, Pedro Giffuni <pfg@freebsd.org> wrote: > >> >> Il giorno 21/lug/2014, alle ore 11:42, Bruce Simpson <bms@fastmail.net> ha scritto: >> >>> On 21/07/2014 16:22, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: >>>> ] >>>> Log: >>>> Add re-entrant versions of the hash functions based on the GNU api. >>>> >>> What, if anything, can be done about qsort_r() API incompatibility? >> >> qsort_r is non-standard and we did it first, plus we will want to stay compatible with Apple :). >> >> I guess we could do some ugly parameter swapping in the case where _GNU_SOURCE >> is defined, but I won’t volunteer to do that. > > Are there any ABI considerations for the change? > I would keep the qsort_r() ABI unchanged and add a GNU-compatible version that is used only when _GNU_SOURCE (but not _BSD_SOURCE) is defined. This would already be pretty messy by itself because some portable code may define _GNU_SOURCE but still may try to use the Apple/BSD interface under another #ifdef. Perhaps it’s just better to leave our headers alone and let the end-users do the wrapping. Pedro.help
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