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Re: [PATCH v2] Support %m in printf functions


On Jan  9 18:22, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-01-09 at 12:51 +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Jan  6 01:00, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2012-01-01 at 11:59 -0600, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> > > > This patch adds support for the "%m" conversion specifier in the printf
> > > > and wprintf functions, a GNU extension:
> > > > 
> > > > http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man3/printf.3.html
> > > 
> > > Thank you all for the comments.  The attached revised patch and STC
> > > should take them into account.
> > > 
> > > The remaining issue is that of gating, specifically exactly how to do
> > > so.  For the moment I'm using __CYGWIN__ until some agreement can be
> > > reached.
> > 
> > Jeff, I'd like to get your input on this.
> > 
> > IMHO, it doesn't feel right to add __CYGWIN__ here since the %m
> > functionality is sufficiently target agnostic to be useful for everyone
> > who would like to use it.  I guess _GLIBC_EXTENSION sounds about right,
> > but maybe it should be _NO_GLIBC_EXTENSIONS instead and only set it
> > for builds which explicitely don't want them?
> 
> What about #if _ELIX_LEVEL >= 4?

I don't think that's feasible.  Let's use the _GLIBC_EXTENSION macro.
For Cygwin we should set it in winsup/cygwin/include/cygwin/config.h.


Thanks,
Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Project Co-Leader
Red Hat


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