[bug-gnulib] Re: getline

[Paul Eggert]

Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> writes:

> Do you think it is worthwhile to proceed with the full-fledged glibc
> function approach?

Probably not, no.

> I'm not exactly sure what you mean by conditional compilation, though.
> Conditional compilation of what?  Conditioned on what?

Conditioned on whether it's glibc.  The idea is that glibc should not
take any performance hit for the change.  It's OK with me if the
gnulib version takes a minor performance hit in order to make
maintenance easy.