Here is an email from the DBD:pg guys describing what _GNU_SOURCE does.

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Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai wrote:
> It's a glibc thing.
> 
> Look at glibc's include/features.h:
> 
> _GNU_SOURCE          All of the above, plus GNU extensions.
> 
> Which means it enables all this:
> 
> __STRICT_ANSI__, _ISOC99_SOURCE, _POSIX_SOURCE, _POSIX_C_SOURCE,
> _XOPEN_SOURCE, _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, _LARGEFILE_SOURCE,
> _LARGEFILE64_SOURCE, _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=N, _BSD_SOURCE, _SVID_SOURCE         
> 
> -- 
> Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai(at)wxs.nl> / asmodai / kita no mono
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> were happy...
> 

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