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Re: [RFC/PATCH 1/2] Teach Solaris that _XOPEN_SOURCE=600 really menas XPG6

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
May 28, 2009, 19:50 UTC
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On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 02:40:14PM -0500, Brandon Casey wrote:
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> It's not the compiler that prevents compilation.  It's the header files.
> 
> You mentioned that on Solaris 8 there was only a single declaration for
> iconv.  There was not a macro check for _XPG6.  I suspect that Solaris 8
> does not support XPG6, so your compilation is just falling back to XPG4.
OK, that makes sense.
> The same thing happens on Solaris 7.  On Solaris 10, if the macros are
> set such that _XPG6 becomes set, then compilation will fail if the
> compiler is not a c99 one.

Right. What I was trying to say is "gcc 3.1.1 is probably c99 enough, and I am using it already". That is, if you were asking how painful it would be to require a c99 compiler for Solaris git, I am saying I don't personally care.

But I don't know what is "normal".
-Peff
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  1. 0/2 OpenSolaris 2008.11 portability fixesJunio C Hamano, May 23, 2009
  2. 1/2 Teach Solaris that _XOPEN_SOURCE=600 really menas XPG6Junio C Hamano, May 23, 2009
  3. 2/2 OpenSolaris 200811 (SunOS 5.11) does not want OLD_ICONVJunio C Hamano, May 23, 2009
  4. Brandon CaseyMay 28, 2009
  5. Jeff KingMay 28, 2009
  6. Brandon CaseyMay 28, 2009
  7. Jeff KingMay 28, 2009
  8. Junio C HamanoMay 28, 2009
  9. Tomas CarneckyJun 11, 2009
  10. Brandon CaseyJun 11, 2009
  11. Tomas CarneckyJun 11, 2009
  12. Brandon CaseyJun 11, 2009
  13. Tomas CarneckyJun 11, 2009
  14. Brandon CaseyJun 11, 2009
  15. Junio C HamanoJun 11, 2009

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