Re: mark atexit, memchr, memcmp, memcpy, memmove, memset, raise, rmdir, strcspn, strpbrk as obsolete

[Bruno Haible]

Tom G. Christensen wrote:
> > The systems which don't have atexit() ... raise() are things like
> > Solaris 2.3, IRIX 5, SunOS 4, NeXTstep, Ultrix. Museumware. We haven't
> > heard any report from anyone using such old systems in 3 years.
> > 
> Perhaps I misunderstand but on my request you recently fixed mbchar for
> IRIX 5.3 does that not count as a report of (gnulib) usage?
> There was also recent fixes to c-stack and vasprintf-posix prompted by
> issues with m4 on IRIX 5.3.

Oh, right. And indeed the portability database in doc/*/*.texi was already
extended to include information about IRIX 5.3. [1]

So, systems without atexit() ... raise() are those _before_ IRIX 5.3.
That was released in 1993/1994 [2], so those systems must be more than
14 years old!

> I'm interested in gnulib for IRIX 5&6 since I build and package software
> for IRIX 5.3 and 6.2 both for my own amusement and as a service to the
> SGI hobbyist community.

You're free to do so. But you have to understand that on my side, every hour
spent on IRIX 5 is not spent on improving the support of MacOS X or the port
to mingw.

Bruno


[1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2008-09/msg00263.html
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRIX