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Message-ID: <61fbeb41-7793-8ec4-d431-7a1b62861e22@adelielinux.org>
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 13:47:56 -0600
From: "A. Wilcox" <awilfox@...lielinux.org>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Minor C99 conformance issue: FILE is an incomplete type

On 01/16/19 13:33, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 01:25:57PM -0600, A. Wilcox wrote:
>> This was noted by our POSIX conformance testing.  There was a discussion
>> in the #musl IRC about possibly making a fake _IO_FILE to satisfy not
>> just POSIX but some miscreant glibc apps.  However, I believe it was
>> decided not to do that.
> 
> I'm not opposed to it, but it also hasn't seemed like a priority to
> work on, and catching programs that are wrongly (from a
> future-proofness standpoint, and from a semantic nonsense standpoint)
> depending on it seems to have been helpful in getting them fixed.
> 
> Rich
> 


Perhaps this could only be enabled when __STDC_VERSION__ == 199901L
(iirc?) *and* __STRICT_ANSI__ are defined, and no other FTM (_BSD, _GNU,
etc).  I'm unaware of *any* software that uses -std=c99 -ansi without
other FTM (though I have seen one -std=c89 -ansi with no other FTM).

Best,
--arw

-- 
A. Wilcox (awilfox)
Project Lead, Adélie Linux
https://www.adelielinux.org



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