From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>, Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
Cc: bug-gnulib@gnu.org, Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>
Subject: Re: scratch_buffer.h, scratch_buffer_dupfree.c sync
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2022 11:26:45 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2f9a6dd4-ebba-f452-6f30-635515f8c49f@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v8nwfgg3.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com>
On 2022-11-03 04:03, Florian Weimer wrote:
> I must say I was surprised to see dynarray and scratch_buffer end up in
> gnulib. I never intended them to escape this way from glibc.
They escaped from glibc because they're used by code shared with Gnulib
(e.g., canonicalize.c).
> The
> interfaces and their implementation are problematic in some ways, and I
> can't recommend them for general use.
Thanks for letting us know.
What problems do you see with the interfaces, and are there efforts to
come up with a better API? The need is there in GNU apps, each of which
tends to roll its own code here.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-11-03 18:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-02 22:37 scratch_buffer.h, scratch_buffer_dupfree.c sync Karl Berry
2022-11-03 1:18 ` Paul Eggert
2022-11-03 2:37 ` Bruno Haible
2022-11-03 3:09 ` Paul Eggert
2022-11-03 10:51 ` Bruno Haible
2022-11-03 11:03 ` Florian Weimer
2022-11-03 12:41 ` Bruno Haible
2022-11-03 18:27 ` Paul Eggert
2022-11-03 20:44 ` Bruno Haible
2022-11-03 18:26 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2022-11-03 19:37 ` Florian Weimer
2022-11-03 20:40 ` Karl Berry
2022-11-03 21:12 ` Paul Eggert
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