Hi Collin,
> > doc: Add appendix about Gnulib history.
> > * doc/gnulib-history.texi: New file.
> > * doc/gnulib.texi: Include it.
>
> Interesting section, thanks.
I wrote it also as an answer to misguided statements that
"gnulib is mainly about porti
On 5/3/24 11:32 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Not quite, because it doesn't check for padding bits.
Sorry, I should have clarified excluding that part...
> Also, your code assumes that preprocessor arithmetic works the same as
> runtime arithmetic. Although C23 guarantees this (because it
> guarantees
On 2024-05-03 17:14, Collin Funk wrote:
Also about this comment in intprops-internal.h:
/* This include file assumes that signed types are two's complement without
padding bits; the above macros have undefined behavior otherwise.
If this is a problem for you, please let us k
Hi Paul,
On 5/3/24 2:50 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
>> The macros for compilers who don't support GCC's builtins are
>> really clever. They don't look like they were too much fun to write
>> though. :)
>
> Actually they were fun in a twisted sort of way. My secret was to not
> work on them more than 3
Collin Funk wrote:
> Maybe intprops.h and the stdckdint.h replacement are worth a mention
> too.
intprops.h is a masterpiece. But Gnulib has more than 1000 modules;
therefore in a history section, we can only mention groups of modules
(like "multithreading", "", etc.). Otherwise it would be too
lo
On 2024-05-03 14:14, Collin Funk wrote:
The macros for compilers who don't support GCC's builtins are
really clever. They don't look like they were too much fun to write
though. :)
Actually they were fun in a twisted sort of way. My secret was to not
work on them more than 30 minutes at a time
Hi Bruno,
On 5/2/24 11:15 AM, Bruno Haible wrote:
> doc: Add appendix about Gnulib history.
> * doc/gnulib-history.texi: New file.
> * doc/gnulib.texi: Include it.
Interesting section, thanks.
> Providing a substitute / override for a system function was rel
Paul and Jim, feel free to correct this where I'm wrong...
2024-05-02 Bruno Haible
doc: Add appendix about Gnulib history.
* doc/gnulib-history.texi: New file.
* doc/gnulib.texi: Include it.
diff --git a/doc/gnulib.texi b/doc/gnulib.texi
index aa0eb57f62..55cf6
