Re: Patch to switch all ports to common_ansi.h

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <7f33d277-e16e-5623-a998-d0a9617f420b%gmx.com@localhost>,
Kamil Rytarowski  <n54%gmx.com@localhost> wrote:
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>I propose a patch unifying all ports to switch to common_ansi.h.
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>http://netbsd.org/~kamil/patch-00107-common_ansi.h.txt
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>It's a follow up of the previous thread on this mailing list:
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>https://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-toolchain/2019/02/02/msg003393.html
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>It was commonly agreed to switch to this approach. I was waiting for
>global switch of all ports to GCC7 before this move and this has been
>accomplished.
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>This patch will unbreak building packages like ovmf (user of
>-fshort-wchar) with Clang headers:
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>http://pkgsrc.se/sysutils/ovmf
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>The distribution build passes fine on amd64 and all tests pass. If there
>are problems on any of the ports we will catch real bugs.
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>I intend to get this merged into -9.

Doesn't this break the c++ ABI? But I would like to see that happen if
it does not break things. We can also merge int_fmtio.h, int_limits.h
int_types.h, etc. using #ifdef _LP64 where needed. Perhaps all that should
be done together.

christos