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Re: Add xdr support
Dave Korn wrote:
> On 13/02/2010 23:53, Charles Wilson wrote:
>
>> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2009-10/msg00242.html
>
>> IIRC at that time Corinna suggested that newlib was the appropriate
>> place for this, if I wanted to contribute it post-1.7.1.
>
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2009-10/msg00254.html
>
>> I asked how to
>> go about adding something to newlib that might not work for all targets,
>> and she said:
>
>> Unfortunately, my google-foo is not strong enough to find that message
>> in the cygwin archives,
>
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2009-10/msg00259.html
I bow to your superior google-foo. Interesting thing from those links,
apparently *I* was the first person to mention newlib as the appropriate
home for the XDR implementation, not Corinna. Weird.
Well, historical oddities notwithstanding, I think newlib /is/ the
correct place, simply because I can easily see a demand/need for XDR
code on other newlib targets. But obviously the ultimate call is Jeff
J's -- although I'm not planning on even submitting it over there unless
this group decides it is the correct thing to do.
--
Chuck