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

[Tom G. Christensen]

On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 11:38:01PM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Hi Jim,
> 
> > Gnulib is more than a little about portability.
> > Do we really want to discourage creation of packages
> > that will work on IRIX 6.1 and AIX older than 4.3.2?
> 
> 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.

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.
Ultimately I'm only a user and I do not have the skills to maintain
gnulib for these systems. I can only report what problems I see and
hope that people more knowledgeable will provide fixes.

-tgc