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Message-ID: <5037E892.3040305@barfooze.de>
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 22:48:18 +0200
From: John Spencer <maillist-musl@...fooze.de>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Header testing [Re: Re: dirent.h and __NEED_size_t]

On 08/24/2012 10:16 PM, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 10:04:22PM +0200, John Spencer wrote:
>>
>> bits/alltypes.h:
>>
>> #if defined(__NEED_struct_timespec)&&  !defined(__DEFINED_struct_timespec)
>> struct timespec { time_t tv_sec; long tv_nsec; }; // time_t can be undefined
>> #define __DEFINED_struct_timespec
>> #endif
> It's up to the header requesting timespec to also request time_t. We
> could avoid this by just duplicating the underlying type for time_t in
> the struct definition; I'm not sure if this would be desirable, since
> it might cause errors of omitting time_t from headers that need to
> define it to get missed.
>
in that case, sys/sem.h (which caused the compilation error) needs to be 
fixed to set __NEED_time_t

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