Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 33ec2ff: Add one more mod-test test

[Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>]

On 11/29/2015 11:15 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
>> Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2015 10:21:39 -0500
>> Thanks.  In fact, dladdr isn't implemented on Cygwin, so dynlib_addr
>> always returns false.  I'll update the test.
>
> Thanks.
>
>> Should the update be Cygwin-specific?  According to
>> http://linux.die.net/man/3/dladdr, dladdr is a glibc extension to
>> POSIX, so there could conceivably be other systems with the same
>> issue.
>
> Could be, but I don't know which systems might have this problem.  If
> you or someone else have access to *BSD or Solaris, please try that
> there.  I wouldn't recommend blindly do that everywhere except
> GNU/Linux and Windows, because then we could miss some systems where
> the functionality is available, but something needs to be done to have
> it.  So I think it's best to fail (pun intended) on the safe side.

OK, I've done this.  I don't have access to *BSD or Solaris, so someone 
else will have to make sure that the test passes on those systems.

Ken