From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Krefting Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/16] compat: add endinanness helpers Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 06:56:58 +0100 (CET) Organization: /universe/earth/europe/norway/oslo Message-ID: References: <1372116193-32762-1-git-send-email-tanoku@gmail.com> <1372116193-32762-8-git-send-email-tanoku@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Git Mailing List To: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Vicent_Mart=ED?= X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jun 27 07:57:12 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Us5Cg-0002cc-16 for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Jun 2013 07:57:10 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751457Ab3F0F5F convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Jun 2013 01:57:05 -0400 Received: from upper-gw.cixit.se ([92.43.32.133]:56726 "EHLO mail.cixit.se" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750871Ab3F0F5E (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Jun 2013 01:57:04 -0400 Received: from ds9.cixit.se (peter@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.cixit.se (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-9.4) with ESMTP id r5R5uwKZ010880 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Thu, 27 Jun 2013 07:56:58 +0200 Received: from localhost (peter@localhost) by ds9.cixit.se (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) with ESMTP id r5R5uwI8010877; Thu, 27 Jun 2013 07:56:58 +0200 X-Authentication-Warning: ds9.cixit.se: peter owned process doing -bs In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) Accept: text/plain X-Warning: Junk / bulk email will be reported X-Rating: This message is not to be eaten by humans X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.3.7 (mail.cixit.se [127.0.0.1]); Thu, 27 Jun 2013 07:56:58 +0200 (CEST) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Vicent Mart=C3=AD: > I'm aware of that, but Git needs to build with glibc 2.7+ (or was it=20 > 2.6?), hence the need for this compat layer. Right. But perhaps the compatibility layer could provide the=20 functionality with the names available in the later glibc versions=20 (and on *BSD)? That would make it easier to read the code that is=20 using it. --=20 \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/