Re: [PATCH 07/16] compat: add endinanness helpers
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Peter Krefting <peter@softwolves.pp.se>
- Date
- Jun 27, 2013, 05:56 UTC
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Vicent Martí:
> I'm aware of that, but Git needs to build with glibc 2.7+ (or was it > 2.6?), hence the need for this compat layer.
Right. But perhaps the compatibility layer could provide the functionality with the names available in the later glibc versions (and on *BSD)? That would make it easier to read the code that is using it.
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