From owner-svn-src-head@freebsd.org Thu Mar 30 07:53:54 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-head@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50164D25632; Thu, 30 Mar 2017 07:53:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kostikbel@gmail.com) Received: from kib.kiev.ua (kib.kiev.ua [IPv6:2001:470:d5e7:1::1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DBDC6969; Thu, 30 Mar 2017 07:53:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kostikbel@gmail.com) Received: from tom.home (kib@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kib.kiev.ua (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPS id v2U7rnBx054127 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 30 Mar 2017 10:53:49 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from kostikbel@gmail.com) DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.10.3 kib.kiev.ua v2U7rnBx054127 Received: (from kostik@localhost) by tom.home (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) id v2U7rnqH054126; Thu, 30 Mar 2017 10:53:49 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from kostikbel@gmail.com) X-Authentication-Warning: tom.home: kostik set sender to kostikbel@gmail.com using -f Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2017 10:53:49 +0300 From: Konstantin Belousov To: Pedro Giffuni Cc: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r316213 - in head: include lib/libc/include lib/libc/stdlib lib/libc/string lib/libc/tests/stdlib lib/libc/tests/string sys/sys Message-ID: <20170330075349.GA43712@kib.kiev.ua> References: <201703300457.v2U4vQJw072106@repo.freebsd.org> <20170330050012.GW43712@kib.kiev.ua> <82479073-92cf-380c-5f4c-c33aa31bb1b3@FreeBSD.org> <20170330063422.GY43712@kib.kiev.ua> <75f47d21-1ab8-ce42-c9b7-902f4da74f02@FreeBSD.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <75f47d21-1ab8-ce42-c9b7-902f4da74f02@FreeBSD.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.8.0 (2017-02-23) X-BeenThere: svn-src-head@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for the src tree for head/-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2017 07:53:54 -0000 On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 02:10:55AM -0500, Pedro Giffuni wrote: > The thing about the Annex K is that it is not used by anything AFAICT, > so I guess it would be considered bloat but with Microsoft being such > a good open-source citizen lately perhaps it will find uses in the > near future. If you have a complete implementation and it is as clean > as this piece looks I think I would not object towards bringing it to > base in lib/. Eventually I guess people may ask to bring it into libc > as compliance to standards is never bad. Apparently it is used by some commercial code, as Apple and Juniper examples demonstrate. It is not my implementation, I worked as somewhat experienced commit monkey there, only bringing the proposed patch up to the libc expectations. I have no plans on working on this stuff at all.