Re: [bug-gnulib] Re: automatic prototypes

[Paul Eggert]

Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> writes:

> I think getline would be a better test of this approach.  However, the
> getline prototype uses (s)size_t, so config.h would have to #include
> <sys/types.h>.

Well, you _could_ prototype getline without mentioning either size_t
or ssize_t, so long as you can compute integer types that are
compatible with size_t and ssize_t.  Admittedly this is a bit of work
to get right.

> OTOH, alloca.h has always seemed a bit fragile to me, and it might
> actually be better to move that definition to config.h.

That would mean config.h would include standard include files, at
least if _MSC_VER is defined.  Am I right?  Admittedly the _MSC_VER
case is low-priority, but it's an indication that the approach might
well fail on some hosts.

> I believe alloca is standard in GNU,

That's right.