X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 14:12:28 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: missing functions Message-ID: <20070514121228.GC12259@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On May 1 22:55, Eric Blake wrote: > I noticed a couple of functions that cause link errors even though they are > required by POSIX (or at least will be required by the next version of POSIX), > implemented by newlib, and declared in the headers: > > _Exit > dprintf > > There is also a big list of integer-only and reentrant variants of *printf that > might be worth exporting: > > asiprintf, _asiprintf, asiprintf_r, _asiprintf_r, diprintf, _diprintf, > diprintf_r, _diprintf_r, _dprintf, dprintf_r, _dprintf_r, fiprintf_r, > _fiprintf_r, fprintf_r, _fprintf_r, iprintf_r, _iprintf_r, printf_r, _printf_r, > siprintf_r, _siprintf_r, sniprintf, _sniprintf, sniprintf_r, _sniprintf_r, > snprintf_r, _snprintf_r, sprintf_r, _sprintf_r, vasiprintf, _vasiprintf, > vasiprintf_r, _vasiprintf_r, vdiprintf, _vdiprintf, vdiprintf_r, _vdiprintf_r, > vdprintf, _vdprintf, vdprintf_r, _vdprintf_r, vfiprintf_r, _vfiprintf_r, > vfprintf_r, _vfprintf_r, viprintf, _viprintf, viprintf_r, _viprintf_r, > vprintf_r, _vprintf_r, vsiprintf, _vsiprintf, vsiprintf_r, _vsiprintf_r, > vsniprintf, _vsniprintf, vsniprintf_r, _vsniprintf_r, vsnprintf_r, > _vsnprintf_r, vsprintf_r, _vsprintf_r Why the underscore variants? Are they covered by any standard? If not, we don't export these variants anymore. The existing ones have been originally exported to maintain some compatibility to msvcrt, but this is a moot point for a long time. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/