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obstack: 64-bit obstack support, part 3 This finally enables full 64-bit obstack support. The glibc shared library specific code is removed from obstack.c too, and the error handling code conditionally compiled under control of another macro, _OBSTACK_NO_ERROR_HANDLER. * lib/obstack.h: Include string.h earlier. (_OBSTACK_INTERFACE_VERSION): Define. (_OBSTACK_SIZE_T, _CHUNK_SIZE_T): Define as size_t for version 2. * lib/obstack.c: Don't include shlib-compat.h. (OBSTACK_INTERFACE_VERSION): Delete. (_OBSTACK_ELIDE_CODE): Rename from ELIDE_CODE. Define when version 1 glibc code is compatible with version 2. Don't include stdio.h for __GNU_LIBRARY. (obstack_exit_failure, print_and_abort, obstack_alloc_failed_handler): Omit when _OBSTACK_NO_ERROR_HANDLER defined. Include stdio.h here. (_obstack_compat, _obstack, _obstack_newchunk, obstack_free): Delete glibc shared library specific source.
author Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
date Wed, 29 Oct 2014 14:03:00 +1030
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317 `configure' Invocation
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318 ======================
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320 `configure' recognizes the following options to control how it
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321 operates.
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324 `-h'
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325 Print a summary of all of the options to `configure', and exit.
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329 Print a summary of the options unique to this package's
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330 `configure', and exit. The `short' variant lists options used
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340 Enable the cache: use and save the results of the tests in FILE,
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352 suppress all normal output, redirect it to `/dev/null' (any error
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356 Look for the package's source code in directory DIR. Usually
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360 Use DIR as the installation prefix. *note Installation Names::
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361 for more details, including other options available for fine-tuning
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362 the installation locations.
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365 `-n'
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366 Run the configure checks, but stop before creating any output
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367 files.
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