Re: Should we define _GNU_SOURCE (was Re: GNOME CVS: gnome-common kmaraas)

[Rob Browning <rlb cs utexas edu>]

Owen Taylor <otaylor@gtk.org> writes:

> Doesn't this tend to reduce portability? I.e, someone casually
> uses strndup, after a release, it is found that it doesn't
> exist on most systems, and needs to be added to libsupport or
> replaced.

Adding the functionality (or just the GNU code) to a "crutch" lib for
non GNU systems sounds like the right approach.

Now that I've started using asprintf, I don't know how I got along
without it.  It sure makes handling strings safely easier.

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Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>
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