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* add time64 symbol name redirects to public headers, under arch controlRich Felker2019-10-281-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | a _REDIR_TIME64 macro is introduced, which the arch's alltypes.h is expected to define, to control redirection of symbol names for interfaces that involve time_t and derived types. this ensures that object files will only be linked to libc interfaces matching the ABI whose headers they were compiled against. along with time32 compat shims, which will be introduced separately, the redirection also makes it possible for a single libc (static or shared) to be used with object files produced with either the old (32-bit time_t) headers or the new ones after 64-bit time_t switchover takes place. mixing of such object files (or shared libraries) in the same program will also be possible, but must be done with care; ABI between libc and a consumer of the libc interfaces is guaranteed to match by the the symbol name redirection, but pairwise ABI between consumers of libc that define interfaces between each other in terms of time_t is not guaranteed to match. this change adds a dependency on an additional "GNU C" feature to the public headers for existing 32-bit archs, which is generally undesirable; however, the feature is one which glibc has depended on for a long time, and thus which any viable alternative compiler is going to need to provide. 64-bit archs are not affected, nor will future 32-bit archs be, regardless of whether they are "new" on the kernel side (e.g. riscv32) or just newly-added (e.g. a new sparc or xtensa port). the same applies to newly-added ABIs for existing machine-level archs.
* in public headers, don't assume pre-C99 compilers have __inline keywordQuentin Rameau2016-12-161-0/+2
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* add _DEFAULT_SOURCE feature profile as an alias for _BSD_SOURCERich Felker2014-09-101-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | as a result of commit ab8f6a6e42ff893041f7545a23e6d6a0edde07fb, this definition is now equivalent to the actual "default profile" which appears immediately below in features.h, and which defines both _BSD_SOURCE and _XOPEN_SOURCE. the intent of providing a _DEFAULT_SOURCE, which glibc also now provides, is to give applications a way to "get back" the default feature profile when it was lost either by compiler flags that inhibit it (such as -std=c99) or by library-provided predefined macros (such as -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L) which may inhibit exposure of features that were otherwise visible by default and which the application may need. without _DEFAULT_SOURCE, the application had encode knowledge of a particular libc's defaults, and such knowledge was fragile and subject to bitrot. eventually the names _GNU_SOURCE and _BSD_SOURCE should be phased out in favor of the more-descriptive and more-accurate _ALL_SOURCE and _DEFAULT_SOURCE, leaving the old names as aliases but using the new ones internally. however this is a more invasive change that would require extensive regression testing, so it is deferred.
* fix _ALL_SOURCE logic to avoid possible redefinition of _GNU_SOURCERich Felker2014-09-101-1/+1
| | | | | this could be an error if _GNU_SOURCE was already defined differently by the application.
* add _ALL_SOURCE as an alias for _GNU_SOURCE/enable-everythingRich Felker2012-12-031-0/+4
| | | | | reportedly this is a semi-common practice among some BSDs and a few other systems, and will improve application compatibility.
* default features: make musl usable without feature test macrosRich Felker2012-09-071-1/+28
| | | | | | | | | | the old behavior of exposing nothing except plain ISO C can be obtained by defining __STRICT_ANSI__ or using a compiler option (such as -std=c99) that predefines it. the new default featureset is POSIX with XSI plus _BSD_SOURCE. any explicit feature test macros will inhibit the default. installation docs have also been updated to reflect this change.
* initial check-in, version 0.5.0 v0.5.0Rich Felker2011-02-121-0/+1