From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIMWL_WL_HIGH, DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8019AC433DB for ; Thu, 4 Mar 2021 21:12:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 520BD64F47 for ; Thu, 4 Mar 2021 21:12:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S239084AbhCDVLy (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Mar 2021 16:11:54 -0500 Received: from us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com ([216.205.24.124]:51785 "EHLO us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S239080AbhCDVLf (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Mar 2021 16:11:35 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=redhat.com; s=mimecast20190719; t=1614892209; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=tLI24ca/MERFyzL2Z5pLWaKqevRoM9VA+hYhVldy6fM=; b=FteRdtewGdQ3fIvOn/9ciysZlRG9sxfm3izx0Kcji9h0FtwR0IYg81CADTKsUX/DS8BM+C OVzP6GKpNRtnxgqqRnxpBTrQB3UdXQjxdzet8lpY8na2z0qDXAYZEK0qHrasMdLjKcU8nh jPJa8sEagFxSSjXlncu8ZZJ1BysH19U= Received: from mimecast-mx01.redhat.com (mimecast-mx01.redhat.com [209.132.183.4]) (Using TLS) by relay.mimecast.com with ESMTP id us-mta-427-pG8swbrqNGeNqtRVYmXC4Q-1; Thu, 04 Mar 2021 16:10:05 -0500 X-MC-Unique: pG8swbrqNGeNqtRVYmXC4Q-1 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx03.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.13]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mimecast-mx01.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EBD376409B; Thu, 4 Mar 2021 21:10:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from oldenburg.str.redhat.com (ovpn-112-56.ams2.redhat.com [10.36.112.56]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7B1A9614FA; Thu, 4 Mar 2021 21:10:02 +0000 (UTC) From: Florian Weimer To: Zack Weinberg Cc: Alejandro Colomar , linux-man@vger.kernel.org, libc-alpha@sourceware.org, mtk.manpages@gmail.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] makecontext.3: Fix function declarator with empty parentheses. References: <20210304194534.130735-1-alx.manpages@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2021 22:10:10 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Zack Weinberg's message of "Thu, 4 Mar 2021 15:10:30 -0500") Message-ID: <87v9a6hbgt.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.79 on 10.5.11.13 Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-man@vger.kernel.org * Zack Weinberg: > This is actually the Austin Group=E2=80=99s primary rationale for depreca= ting > 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