Re: [Bug-gnulib] Re: fnmatch.c includes alloca.h conditionally?

[Derek Robert Price]

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Paul Eggert wrote:

>Derek Robert Price <derek@ximbiot.com> writes:
>
>>Actually, that is a "#ifndef".  Since IN_LIBINTL won't be defined in
>>GNU applications, alloca.h _will_ be included.
>
>
>But the code looks like this:
>
>  #ifndef IN_LIBINTL
>  # include <alloca.h>
>  #endif
>
>which means that <alloca.h> _won't_ be included in GNU applications.


Urm, I think we are having a communications difficulty.  You specified
here:
<http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2004-05/msg00026.html>
that IN_LIBINTL "shouldn't be defined in GNU applications".  Unless my
brain is playing new tricks on me, the double-negative of _not being
defined in GNU applications_ and an _#ifndef IN_LIBINTL_ (_if not
defined_) will cause alloca.h to be included in GNU applications.

Thus it should be okay for vasnprintf to include alloca.h
unconditionally and rely on HAVE_ALLOCA being set correctly, whether
IN_LIBINTL or not.

>>Could we change the switch to #ifdef HAVE_ALLOCA_H and assume that
>>HAVE_ALLOCA_H will be defined or undefined properly, even when
>>IN_LIBINTL is defined?
>
>
>Yes, that would also work, and perhaps be a bit more straightforward.
>But again, it's up to Bruno.
>
>Similar stylistic cleanups are possible in argp too, now that
>"#include <alloca.h>" always works (if you assume the alloca module).
>I don't have time to pursue this right now, though.


Patch attached.

2004-05-17  Derek R. Price  <derek@ximbiot.com>

    * lib/argp-help.c, lib/argp-parse.c: Assume <alloca.h> rather than
freecoding.
    * modules/argp: Depend on alloca.

Derek

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