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authorUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>1998-09-06 23:45:24 +0000
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Update.
1998-09-06 09:53 -0400 Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu> * Makeconfig (+gccwarn): Remove -Wno-parentheses. * elf/dl-open.c: Quiet -Wparentheses warnings. * iconvdata/johab.c: Likewise. * iconvdata/uhc.c: Likewise. * inet/inet_net.c: Likewise. * io/fts.c: Likewise. * locale/newlocale.c: Likewise. * misc/getttyent.c: Likewise. * misc/mntent_r.c: Likewise. * misc/ttyslot.c: Likewise. * nscd/nscd_conf.c: Likewise. * nss/nsswitch.c: Likewise. * resolv/gethnamaddr.c: Likewise. * resolv/nsap_addr.c: Likewise. * resolv/res_debug.c: Likewise. * stdio-common/_itoa.c: Likewise. * stdlib/strtod.c: Likewise. * string/strverscmp.c: Likewise. * sunrpc/svc.c: Likewise. * sysdeps/libm-ieee754/e_cosh.c: Likewise. * sysdeps/libm-ieee754/e_gamma_r.c: Likewise. * sysdeps/libm-ieee754/e_sinh.c: Likewise. * sysdeps/posix/getaddrinfo.c: Likewise. * include/dlfcn.h: Likewise. * elf/dlfcn.h: Declare dladdr only for __USE_GNU. Define RTLD_DEFAULT.
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@@ -19,6 +19,20 @@ comments. You could also use the @samp{-D} option to GCC, but it's
better if you make the source files indicate their own meaning in a
self-contained way.
+This system exists to allow the library to conform to multiple standards.
+Although the different standards are often described as supersets of each
+other, they are usually incompatible because larger standards require
+functions with names that smaller ones reserve to the user program. This
+is not mere pedantry --- it has been a problem in practice. For instance,
+some non-GNU programs define functions named @code{getline} that have
+nothing to do with this library's @code{getline}. They would not be
+compilable if all features were enabled indescriminantly.
+
+This should not be used to verify that a program conforms to a limited
+standard. It is insufficent for this purpose, as it will not protect you
+from including header files outside the standard, or relying on semantics
+undefined within the standard.
+
@comment (none)
@comment POSIX.1
@defvr Macro _POSIX_SOURCE