[patch] avoid c99 declaration

[Mike Frysinger]

On Saturday, July 31, 2010 16:22:35 Khem Raj wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 11:37 PM, Carmelo AMOROSO wrote:
> > On 7/28/2010 7:51 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> >> On Monday, June 21, 2010 06:39:12 Gianluigi Tiesi wrote:
> >>> While compiling uClibc inside openwrt build system I have somehow the
> >>> compiler
> >>> without -std=c99 flash (since adding id causes me some troubles)
> >> 
> >> why dont we fix uClibc to use c99 then ?  if your toolchain is new
> >> enough to support TLS as NPTL requires, then it's new enough to support
> >> c99 features. we shouldnt go throwing frivolous patches at the NPTL
> >> code when we're merely importing it from glibc.  realistically, we dont
> >> have the man power to maintain a fork which means we need to be
> >> sticking as lose to glibc as possible here.
> > 
> > I definitely agree with Mike. Even if changes are dummy, merging effort
> > with updated version of NPTL/glibc could be too huge.
> 
> yes I agree. I proposed to make C99 a requirement for uclibc.

i'm not necessarily set on all of uClibc, but certainly any part that utilizes 
TLS.  i guess we could enable -std=gnu99 in the build and see who (if any) 
complains.

if no one has anything else, i'll revert the changes in question and add -
std=gnu99.
-mike
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