Re: toolchain/48835 (gcc or assembler problem, shown by gdbm-1.11)

[Klaus Klein <kleink%kleink.org@localhost>]

On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 09:05:00PM +0000, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR toolchain/48835; it has been noted by 
> GNATS.
> 
> From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>
> To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
> Cc: 
> Subject: Re: toolchain/48835 (gcc or assembler problem, shown by gdbm-1.11)
> Date: Sun, 25 May 2014 23:00:20 +0200
> 
>  On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 12:12:21AM +0000, dholland%NetBSD.org@localhost 
> wrote:
>  > Responsible-Changed-Why:
>  > get the attention of people who know about namespace stuff
>  
>  Well, the macros has been literally around since the ancient time. Even
>  Linux had it until recently, so I would just punt out on this.

<sys/ioctl.h> has for a long time been rather notorious for carrying
a lot of baggage, and there's been little motivation to narrow down
its namespace consumption.  (Think BSD ioctl vs. the entirely
different way System V went, with the former seeing no standardization
effort.)

Prior art of dealing with this has been to fix the application.


- Klaus