From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?=) Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: i guess we're frozen & stuff Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 22:34:41 +0200 Message-ID: <87hbwerswu.fsf@gnu.org> References: <8763cuwdkl.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1250023223 29823 80.91.229.12 (11 Aug 2009 20:40:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 20:40:23 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 11 22:40:17 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1May8m-0001Uz-Oo for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 22:40:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39120 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1May8l-000568-32 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:40:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1May8h-00055s-VS for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:40:12 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1May8c-000552-Nr for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:40:10 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=46923 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1May8c-00054z-Gr for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:40:06 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:35616 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1May8b-0005IL-SW for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:40:06 -0400 Original-Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1May8Y-0000Xn-Ro for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 20:40:02 +0000 Original-Received: from reverse-83.fdn.fr ([80.67.176.83]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 20:40:02 +0000 Original-Received: from ludo by reverse-83.fdn.fr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 20:40:02 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: reverse-83.fdn.fr X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 24 Thermidor an 217 de la =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=E9volutio?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?n?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0xEA52ECF4 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 821D 815D 902A 7EAB 5CEE D120 7FBA 3D4F EB1F 5364 X-OS: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:6FdofalXeeByO/YlByP6U1vyrUU= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:9081 Archived-At: Ken Raeburn writes: > However, they're testing for a POSIX 2008 requirement that C99 and > POSIX 2004 implementations need not meet, namely that NULL be of type > "void *" instead of any null pointer constant (e.g., "0"). I think > requiring POSIX 2008 support for Guile and anything that builds on it > seems like a bad idea. I haven't looked at the libunistring code to > see why it might be relevant, but it seems like a pretty gratuitous > imposition to me. The only benefit of it I can see is that a variadic > function can then take NULL as an argument without casting to char*; > is that worth refusing to support other systems? I didn't know it was a POSIX 2008 requirement. Then indeed, we should discuss this with the libunistring folks. Thanks, Ludo'.