From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rob Browning Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: config related patch (and how to start handling Debian patches) Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2003 11:54:26 -0600 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <871y2hz6el.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> References: <874r7f4rnv.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1044813276 31722 80.91.224.249 (9 Feb 2003 17:54:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2003 17:54:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18hvf1-0008FU-00 for ; Sun, 09 Feb 2003 18:54:35 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18hvpd-0002Jo-00 for ; Sun, 09 Feb 2003 19:05:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18hvfE-0000dK-04 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sun, 09 Feb 2003 12:54:48 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18hvev-0000Ye-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Feb 2003 12:54:29 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18hvet-0000VW-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Feb 2003 12:54:28 -0500 Original-Received: from dsl093-098-016.wdc1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([66.93.98.16] helo=defaultvalue.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18hvet-0000TV-00; Sun, 09 Feb 2003 12:54:27 -0500 Original-Received: from raven.i.defaultvalue.org (raven.i.defaultvalue.org [192.168.1.7]) by defaultvalue.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4309B87B; Sun, 9 Feb 2003 11:54:26 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by raven.i.defaultvalue.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4D7ABB7E8B; Sun, 9 Feb 2003 11:54:26 -0600 (CST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Sun, 09 Feb 2003 07:40:24 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.2 (i386-pc-linux-gnu) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:11522 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:11522 Richard Stallman writes: > It looks like you're working on year-old Emacs sources rather than > the latest ones. This change is mostly obsolete. Equivalent changes > were already made in lib-src. Hmm, sorry about that, I believe I tested the patch against the current pretest, but maybe I'm mistaken. Or are you saying you'd prefer I work directly against current CVS? > We might want to define bzero etc. in config.h, but the change > would have to be changed differently now. Alternately, I suppose all calls in the source could be changed to memcpy, etc., but I'm not sure what your preference would be. Thanks -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org, @linuxdevel.com, and @debian.org Previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG starting 2002-11-03 = 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4