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From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Gavin Smith <GavinSmith0123@gmail.com>,
	bug-gnulib@gnu.org, bug-texinfo@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Avoid gnulib redefinitions - MDA, free-posix
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2022 09:58:25 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <916fe3b7-0ace-fa15-2282-2f6571aba26c@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y10sTbYUvG3TKGbt@starmint>

On 2022-10-29 06:36, Gavin Smith wrote:
> Here is one idea.  When
> using a module like 'free-posix', if it is loaded as a dependency only,
> use the redefinition in Gnulib code only, but do not override symbols
> in user code.  It would be as if there were two modules, say
> gl-free-posix and free-posix, where gl-free-posix made the redefinition
> of rpl_gl_free and free-posix (requested by the user) redirected rpl_free
> to rpl_gl_free.

If it's just 'free', I might prefer the latter solution, to underline 
the special case and to avoid even more complexity in gnulib-tool. Is 
that something you could write?

If this problem occurs with lots of other symbols perhaps we'd need 
something more like the former, though. This would need more hacking, I 
expect.


  reply	other threads:[~2022-10-29 16:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-29 13:36 Avoid gnulib redefinitions - MDA, free-posix Gavin Smith
2022-10-29 16:58 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2022-10-29 18:53   ` Gavin Smith
2022-10-30 13:37     ` Avoid gnulib redefinitions - free-posix Bruno Haible
2022-10-29 21:48 ` Avoid gnulib redefinitions - MDA Bruno Haible
2022-10-29 21:59   ` Gavin Smith
2022-10-29 22:09     ` Bruno Haible
2022-10-29 22:20       ` Gavin Smith

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