Re: [Bug-gnulib] xalloc module dependencies

[Gary V. Vaughan]

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Bruno Haible wrote:
| Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
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|>shouldn't xalloc Depends-on: cite memset and memcpy?
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| Whether or not memset and memcpy should be listed as dependencies, depends
| on your porting target. For ca. a year or two, the majority of gnulib users
| targets portability only to systems that support ANSI C 89, i.e. to systems
| that date from ca. 1992 or newer. These targets don't need memset and memcpy
| replacements any more.
|
| If you target older systems too (I think GNU tar still does this), you need
| to add those gnulib modules listed in section "Support for systems lacking
| ANSI C 89" of MODULES.html which are relevant to your package.

Okay, thanks.

But that does seem unnecessarily confusing.  Does gnulib itself support
pre-c89 systems?  If it does we should list the dependencies correctly (and
add a little bloat to every gnulib client in exchange for better pre-c89
compatibility), otherwise memset and memcpy don't belong in gnulib (GNU tar
should ship them itself in that case).

Cheers,
        Gary.
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