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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | Re: scratch_buffer and 'void *' pointer arithmetic |
Date: | Fri, 15 Dec 2017 19:53:13 -0800 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.5.0 |
On 12/15/2017 07:12 PM, Bruno Haible wrote:
Therefore I would suggest to change the type of the 'data' field to 'char *' in gnulib. I know that in glibc this is not needed, because glibc assumes GCC and GCC supports 'void *' arithmetic as an extension. Rationale: 'scratch_buffer' is a module of its own right in gnulib, and may get more uses, in order to avoid stack overflows.
I think I'd rather leave it alone. glibc is moving to a more-general module that addresses this problem in a better way, and I'd rather we spend our limited resources doing that than forking.
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