Re: string.h uses restrict

[Jim Meyering]

Reuben Thomas wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, Jim Meyering wrote:
>
>> Ok by me.  Though I don't like the use of $(C_SOURCES), as I
>> mentioned. I do understand you're trying to do this gradually.  I'd
>> be inclined to make bigger changes ;-) It's only "make
>> syntax-check", after all.
>
> OK, I'm just trying to make changes that I can make reasonably
> confidently in little time and others review ditto!
>
>> Also, your change lacks a recent improvement:
>>
>>    http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=100d4983e77dc
>>
>> The file-name-filtering grep commands (that test whether we have any
>> file to search) should all use -l, since all that matters is the
>> 0/non-zero exit status; no sense in finding/printing all matches.
>
> OK, in fact this only applies to one comment and one invocation of
> grep in my patch (the ChangeLog rule changes I can't use since they
> expect to have a complete list of files to look at and I only have C
> files at the moment).
>
> Once this patch is in gnulib, I'll try to make another containing the
> rest of the syntax checks.

Ok.  Post "git format-patch ..." output and I'll push it,
unless someone objects in the mean time.