From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Benjamin Riefenstahl Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: config related patch (and how to start handling Debian patches) Date: 15 Feb 2003 19:01:52 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <874r7f4rnv.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> <871y2hz6el.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> <87el6ann4x.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 1045332040 6641 80.91.224.249 (15 Feb 2003 18:00:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 18:00:40 +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 18k6c8-0001iz-00 for ; Sat, 15 Feb 2003 19:00:36 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18k6pf-0000dk-00 for ; Sat, 15 Feb 2003 19:14:35 +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 18k6eA-0000VI-06 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sat, 15 Feb 2003 13:02:42 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18k6dd-00006K-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Feb 2003 13:02:09 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18k6dQ-0007yO-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Feb 2003 13:01:57 -0500 Original-Received: from [193.28.100.165] (helo=mail.epost.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18k6dM-0007kD-00; Sat, 15 Feb 2003 13:01:52 -0500 Original-Received: from cicero.benny.turtle-trading.net.epost.de (193.99.153.6) by mail.epost.de (6.7.015) id 3E426BBE00130CF4; Sat, 15 Feb 2003 19:01:51 +0100 Original-To: Rob Browning In-Reply-To: <87el6ann4x.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> Original-Lines: 16 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Original-cc: rms@gnu.org 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:11671 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:11671 Hi Bob, Rob Browning writes: > This small patch switches emacs to prefer the mem* functions rather > than the b* functions when they're available since at least under > GNU/Linux, the b* appear to be deprecated. However, if this > deprecation isn't common, the following patch might not be the right > thing to do. bzero() etc are deprecated since the C language standard preferred memset() etc instead in 1989, more than 13 years ago. Not even the POSIX standard has bzero() etc. Just my personal impressions of course ;-) ... so long, benny