On Mon, 6 Aug 2012, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 10:44 PM, Dimitrios Apostolou <ji...@gmx.net> wrote: > > > > What else is missing to make this patch appropriate for libiberty? Should I > > change the prolog in strnlen.c, since I only copied it intact from gnulib? > > We generally try to avoid straight GPL source code without runtime > exception in libiberty, and I don't see a reason to bend that rule for > this trivial function.
Just don't forget that libiberty isn't a target library anymore. To wit, the (GCC) run-time exception is moot for that code, AFAIK. Maybe enough reason to abandon that rule so its code can be truly and freely shared between GNU projects. brgds, H-P
