Bug#704598: libc0.1-dev: sys/mount.h requires C99
On 12/04/13 17:49, Pino Toscano wrote:
> GNU/kFreeBSD porters, can you please take a look at this?
At first glance at this, I think it was made 'static inline' because the
function (copied from FreeBSD libc) really is being inlined into the
header; it wouldn't be linked into the executable otherwise as glibc
does not have it.
I think 'static' is essential (so the function does not get exported /
defined more than once), but maybe the 'inline' can be dropped without
ill effects (a compiler might choose to inline it anyway).
An alternative might have been the __inline GCC extension and the
necessary defines for that macro to work, but that sounds messy - making
something standards-compliant by using a nonstandard feature...
This why I asked first if it is really worth the effort of trying to fix
this. I couldn't find any packages in unstable that compile as C89.
Maintaining compatibility with FreeBSD ports seems like a good enough
reason so we should see what we can do about this.
Regards,
--
Steven Chamberlain
steven@pyro.eu.org
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