What's the deal with __P?

Peter S. Mazinger ps.m at gmx.net
Sat Jan 7 10:41:42 UTC 2006


On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, Rob Landley wrote:

> So I'm finally shoveling through the bug list, trying to get out the release, 
> and I keep bumping into __P(thingy), and from wandering around in the headers 
> it looks like that's a NOP wrapper.
> 
> Does anybody know what this is supposed to be for?  (It looks like some kind 
> of internationalization thing, except it's around functions, not strings...)
> 
> Rob

Syncing uClibc headers to glibc's I see these been removed everywhere, we 
have a noop for it in sys/cdefs.h as #define __P(args) args

Peter

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