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Re: [RFC] Is it okay to just use GNU extensions or should an alternative


From: Vesa Jääskeläinen
Subject: Re: [RFC] Is it okay to just use GNU extensions or should an alternative be provided too?
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2008 15:32:28 +0300
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Felix Zielcke wrote:
> I just talked with Marco on IRC.
> 
> I have just used asprintf in one of my patches, but now I discovered:
> http://grub.enbug.org/BuildingOnNonGnu
> 
> So I became a bit unsure now if it's okay to just use asprintf.
> 
> Is it okay to just use and don't care about enviroments which don't
> use/have glibc?
> 
> Or should such GNU extentions just not be used if they can be avoided?
> 
> I doubt it would be good to use many `#ifdef _GNU_SOURCE' in the code.

Please use what ever we have on grub source code already. Then it work
fine also in standalone grub.

It should be possible to use existing functions. I see asprintf just a
wrapper to malloc/sprintf for which there are already versions present
on grub.




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