On 06/11/14 11:33, Rainer Orth wrote: > Hi Phil, > >> The configure change is fine. Also the include. (From a libcc >> authorship point of view). I am not aware of the history of AF_UNIX >> over AF_LOCAL so I have no comment on that. Please await permission > > the glibc manual states > > AF_UNIX > > This is a synonym for AF_LOCAL. Although AF_LOCAL is mandated by > POSIX.1g, AF_UNIX is portable to more systems. AF_UNIX was the > traditional name stemming from BSD, so even most POSIX systems > support it. It is also the name of choice in the Unix98 > specification. (The same is true for PF_UNIX vs. PF_LOCAL). > > (http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Address-Formats.html)
OK that looks great. Thanks for explaining! > > >> from a GCC maintainer (I am not one). > > You probably should become the libcc1 maintainer, though :-) I am quite new to GCC (the vast majority of my work is over in GDB), so not sure how these things work. I'll be happy to do what the GCC community think best. We plan to extend libcc1 to include C++ as a next step (after the GDB patches are approved). So I will be around a lot. Cheers Phil
