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From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
To: Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com>
Cc: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>,
	linux-man@vger.kernel.org, libc-alpha@sourceware.org,
	mtk.manpages@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] makecontext.3: Fix function declarator with empty parentheses.
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2021 22:10:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v9a6hbgt.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKCAbMg3G4EAeuUhN9EQTDnrTSD0sPoH0uH1=kkpfj9qYorPdg@mail.gmail.com> (Zack Weinberg's message of "Thu, 4 Mar 2021 15:10:30 -0500")

* Zack Weinberg:

> This is actually the Austin Group’s primary rationale for deprecating
> makecontext and its relatives.

That's a bit surprising because open and fcntl have a similar problem:
the argument type before the ellipsis cannot be int.

And doesn't a later C standard add a generic function pointer type?

Thanks,
Florian


  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-03-04 21:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-04 19:45 [PATCH] makecontext.3: Fix function declarator with empty parentheses Alejandro Colomar
     [not found] ` <CAKCAbMg3G4EAeuUhN9EQTDnrTSD0sPoH0uH1=kkpfj9qYorPdg@mail.gmail.com>
2021-03-04 21:10   ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2021-03-05  1:13     ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2021-03-05 10:21       ` Florian Weimer
2021-03-05 10:27         ` Andreas Schwab
2021-03-05 12:48         ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)

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