Re: [Bug-tar] ignore_value vs (void) [was: bug#15970: bug#15970: Crash in gettext() after fork() on Mac OS X]

[Eric Blake]

On 11/27/2013 12:04 PM, Charles Swiger wrote:
> With respect, folks who want to pull in gnulib for ignore_value() simply
> in order to write portable ANSI-C code are far more likely to benefit from
> Joerg's advice and experience in writing portable code-- code which does _not_
> assume GCC & gnulib-- than they are likely to be correct about the relative
> portability of code to non-GNU platforms which don't come with gnulib.

It sounds like you don't know what gnulib is (and are confusing it with
glibc).  Gnulib is a library of SOURCE code, which is designed to
compile on ANY platform with a C89 or better compiler.  It is not
required to use gcc to do the compilation, nor to link with glibc.
Gnulib is used in a large number of projects (some GNU, some not), and
has been proven to be useful on systems that don't have any GNU software
installed natively.

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