[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 1/4] Uniformly define _XOPEN_SOURCE to 600.

Michael Niedermayer michaelni
Sun Sep 28 17:18:47 CEST 2008


On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 02:22:15PM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> Diego 'Flameeyes' Petten? <flameeyes at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Some source files define _XOPEN_SOURCE to have access to extended
> > functions like gethostname() or mkstemp(); some files define it to
> > 500, others to 600.
> >
> > The feature_tests.h header from Sun systems (Solaris/OpenSolaris) will
> > abort the build if _XOPEN_SOURCE is defined to 500, and C99 is
> > requested (as well as POSIX.1-2001), and will only accept it to be
> > defined to 600.
> >
> > Instead of leaving it up to the source files to define _XOPEN_SOURCE,
> > require it together with POSIX.1-2001 in the compilation flags, so
> > that it's uniformly enabled.
> 
> I already suggested that, but Michael wanted to keep the enabled stuff
> to a minimum, in order to avoid accidentally depending on something
> not strictly needed.

true, but i think i meant it mostly on a global level, having large
amounts of per file #defines was not so much my idea ...


> 
> That said, the only value of _XOPEN_SOURCE mentioned by the standard
> is 600.  Setting it to 500 (or any other value) has no defined effect.
> As such, I suggest that we change the value to 600 in the files that
> define it.

no objections

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