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[Bug-gnulib] Re: stdbool dependency?
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Simon Josefsson |
Subject: |
[Bug-gnulib] Re: stdbool dependency? |
Date: |
Mon, 09 Aug 2004 01:47:19 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:
> Bruno Haible <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Paul Eggert wrote:
>>> This module doesn't list 'stdbool' as an explicit dependency, even
>>> though it uses <stdbool.h>. I started to add that dependency, but
>>> it required adding a new file and I thought "Wait a minute! If
>>> someone is building an app that requires C99, they won't need
>>> the stdbool module."
>>
>> Who is writing an application that requires C99? The only such I know of
>> is glibc. It will take years for all compilers to support C99.
>>
>> Given that it's only a few months since Emacs and GCC have switched to
>> assuming C89, I think we'll have to use 'stdbool' for a long time.
>
> Maybe I'm losing patience, but I feel that a year or two will be
> the most I'll be willing to wait before making coreutils depend on C99.
> I've had to make too many little compromises as it is, and I'd like to
> be able to undo some of them. IMHO, we don't need to wait for *all*
> compilers to provide such support as long as most of the key ones do.
>
> Of course, if we switch coreutils and enough people report legitimate
> problems, we can always revert.
Just out of curiosity, exactly what C99 features do you want? I can
understand stdbool, but that one seem easy to simulate.
Perhaps that hypothetical c992c89 tool, used a'la ansi2knr in
automake, discussed somewhere, could be useful here...
Regards,
Simon
- [Bug-gnulib] new module cycle-check imported from coreutils; stdbool dependency?, Paul Eggert, 2004/08/05
- Re: [Bug-gnulib] stdbool dependency?, Bruno Haible, 2004/08/08
- Re: [Bug-gnulib] stdbool dependency?, Jim Meyering, 2004/08/08
- [Bug-gnulib] Re: stdbool dependency?,
Simon Josefsson <=
- Re: [Bug-gnulib] Re: stdbool dependency?, Paul Eggert, 2004/08/08
- [Bug-gnulib] Re: stdbool dependency?, Simon Josefsson, 2004/08/08
- [Bug-gnulib] remove dependency of xalloc on gettext, error, etc., Paul Eggert, 2004/08/09
- [Bug-gnulib] Re: remove dependency of xalloc on gettext, error, etc., Simon Josefsson, 2004/08/09
- Re: [Bug-gnulib] Re: remove dependency of xalloc on gettext, error, etc., Bruno Haible, 2004/08/09
- Re: [Bug-gnulib] remove dependency of xalloc on gettext, error, etc., Jim Meyering, 2004/08/09
- Re: [Bug-gnulib] remove dependency of xalloc on gettext, error, etc., Paul Eggert, 2004/08/09
- Re: [Bug-gnulib] Re: stdbool dependency?, Bruno Haible, 2004/08/09
- Re: [Bug-gnulib] Re: stdbool dependency?, Jim Meyering, 2004/08/09