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Message-ID: <20150305085823.GX1264@example.net>
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2015 09:58:23 +0100
From: u-wsnj@...ey.se
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: MUSL Feature Detection

On Thu, Mar 05, 2015 at 09:33:15AM +0100, u-wsnj@...ey.se wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 12:54:58PM -0800, William Ahern wrote:
> > So, is there any sort of sanctioned way to detect MUSL at all, version or no
> > version? Is there any interest in supporting any kind of feature detection,
> > such as an API that communicates implementation choices wrt unspecified and
> > undefined behavior.

Sorry for having made a too large citation.

To be clear, I commented only on the part:

> > So, is there any sort of sanctioned way to detect MUSL at all, version or no
> > version?

[skipping my former message]

As for your proposal

> > Is there any interest in supporting any kind of feature detection,
> > such as an API that communicates implementation choices wrt unspecified and
> > undefined behavior.

I did not mean to comment on this in the previous message.

It looks otherwise reasonable but amounts to a standardization effort
for a new API with exactly the details intentionally omitted by
the existing standards. This might be hard to accomplish.

Rune

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