gettextize and autopoint users
FD_CLR
FD_ISSET
FD_SET
FD_ZERO
_Exit
_exit
_longjmp
_setjmp
_tolower
_toupper
a64l
abort
abs
accept
access
acos
acosf
acosh
acoshf
acoshl
acosl
aio_cancel
aio_error
aio_fsync
aio_read
aio_return
aio_suspend
aio_write
alarm
aligned_alloc
alphasort
asctime
asctime_r
asin
asinf
asinh
asinhf
asinhl
asinl
assert
atan
atan2
atan2f
atan2l
atanf
atanh
atanhf
atanhl
atanl
atexit
atof
atoi
atol
atoll
basename
bind
bsearch
btowc
c16rtomb
c32rtomb
cabs
cabsf
cabsl
cacos
cacosf
cacosh
cacoshf
cacoshl
cacosl
calloc
carg
cargf
cargl
casin
casinf
casinh
casinhf
casinhl
casinl
catan
catanf
catanh
catanhf
catanhl
catanl
catclose
catgets
catopen
cbrt
cbrtf
cbrtl
ccos
ccosf
ccosh
ccoshf
ccoshl
ccosl
ceil
ceilf
ceill
cexp
cexpf
cexpl
cfgetispeed
cfgetospeed
cfsetispeed
cfsetospeed
chdir
chmod
chown
cimag
cimagf
cimagl
clearerr
clock
clock_getcpuclockid
clock_getres
clock_gettime
clock_nanosleep
clock_settime
clog
clogf
clogl
close
closedir
closelog
confstr
conj
conjf
conjl
connect
copysign
copysignf
copysignl
cos
cosf
cosh
coshf
coshl
cosl
cpow
cpowf
cpowl
cproj
cprojf
cprojl
creal
crealf
creall
creat
crypt
csin
csinf
csinh
csinhf
csinhl
csinl
csqrt
csqrtf
csqrtl
ctan
ctanf
ctanh
ctanhf
ctanhl
ctanl
ctermid
ctime
ctime_r
daylight
dbm_clearerr
dbm_close
dbm_delete
dbm_error
dbm_fetch
dbm_firstkey
dbm_nextkey
dbm_open
dbm_store
difftime
dirfd
dirname
div
dlclose
dlerror
dlopen
dlsym
dprintf
drand48
dup
dup2
duplocale
encrypt
endgrent
endhostent
endnetent
endprotoent
endpwent
endservent
endutxent
environ
erand48
erf
erfc
erfcf
erfcl
erff
erfl
errno
execl
execle
execlp
execv
execve
execvp
exit
exp
exp2
exp2f
exp2l
expf
expl
expm1
expm1f
expm1l
fabs
fabsf
fabsl
faccessat
fattach
fchdir
fchmod
fchmodat
fchown
fchownat
fclose
fcntl
fdatasync
fdetach
fdim
fdimf
fdiml
fdopen
fdopendir
feclearexcept
fegetenv
fegetexceptflag
fegetround
feholdexcept
feof
feraiseexcept
ferror
fesetenv
fesetexceptflag
fesetround
fetestexcept
feupdateenv
fexecve
fflush
ffs
fgetc
fgetpos
fgets
fgetwc
fgetws
fileno
flockfile
floor
floorf
floorl
fma
fmaf
fmal
fmax
fmaxf
fmaxl
fmemopen
fmin
fminf
fminl
fmod
fmodf
fmodl
fmtmsg
fnmatch
fopen
fork
fpathconf
fpclassify
fprintf
fputc
fputs
fputwc
fputws
fread
free
freeaddrinfo
freelocale
freopen
frexp
frexpf
frexpl
fscanf
fseek
fseeko
fsetpos
fstat
fstatat
fstatvfs
fsync
ftell
ftello
ftok
ftruncate
ftrylockfile
ftw
funlockfile
futimens
fwide
fwprintf
fwrite
fwscanf
gai_strerror
getaddrinfo
getc
getc_unlocked
getchar
getchar_unlocked
getcwd
getdate
getdate_err
getdelim
getegid
getenv
geteuid
getgid
getgrent
getgrgid
getgrgid_r
getgrnam
getgrnam_r
getgroups
gethostent
gethostid
gethostname
getitimer
getline
getlogin
getlogin_r
getmsg
getnameinfo
getnetbyaddr
getnetbyname
getnetent
getopt
getpeername
getpgid
getpgrp
getpid
getpmsg
getppid
getpriority
getprotobyname
getprotobynumber
getprotoent
getpwent
getpwnam
getpwnam_r
getpwuid
getpwuid_r
getrlimit
getrusage
gets
getservbyname
getservbyport
getservent
getsid
getsockname
getsockopt
getsubopt
gettimeofday
getuid
getutxent
getutxid
getutxline
getwc
getwchar
glob
globfree
gmtime
gmtime_r
grantpt
hcreate
hdestroy
hsearch
htonl
htons
hypot
hypotf
hypotl
iconv
iconv_close
iconv_open
if_freenameindex
if_indextoname
if_nameindex
if_nametoindex
ilogb
ilogbf
ilogbl
imaxabs
imaxdiv
inet_addr
inet_ntoa
inet_ntop
inet_pton
initstate
insque
ioctl
isalnum
isalnum_l
isalpha
isalpha_l
isascii
isastream
isatty
isblank
isblank_l
iscntrl
iscntrl_l
isdigit
isdigit_l
isfinite
isgraph
isgraph_l
isgreater
isgreaterequal
isinf
isless
islessequal
islessgreater
islower
islower_l
isnan
isnormal
isprint
isprint_l
ispunct
ispunct_l
isspace
isspace_l
isunordered
isupper
isupper_l
iswalnum
iswalnum_l
iswalpha
iswalpha_l
iswblank
iswblank_l
iswcntrl
iswcntrl_l
iswctype
iswctype_l
iswdigit
iswdigit_l
iswgraph
iswgraph_l
iswlower
iswlower_l
iswprint
iswprint_l
iswpunct
iswpunct_l
iswspace
iswspace_l
iswupper
iswupper_l
iswxdigit
iswxdigit_l
isxdigit
isxdigit_l
j0
j1
jn
jrand48
kill
killpg
l64a
labs
lchown
lcong48
ldexp
ldexpf
ldexpl
ldiv
lfind
lgamma
lgammaf
lgammal
link
linkat
lio_listio
listen
llabs
lldiv
llrint
llrintf
llrintl
llround
llroundf
llroundl
localeconv
localtime
localtime_r
lockf
log
log10
log10f
log10l
log1p
log1pf
log1pl
log2
log2f
log2l
logb
logbf
logbl
logf
logl
longjmp
lrand48
lrint
lrintf
lrintl
lround
lroundf
lroundl
lsearch
lseek
lstat
malloc
mblen
mbrlen
mbrtoc16
mbrtoc32
mbrtowc
mbsinit
mbsnrtowcs
mbsrtowcs
mbstowcs
mbtowc
memccpy
memchr
memcmp
memcpy
memmove
memset
mkdir
mkdirat
mkdtemp
mkfifo
mkfifoat
mknod
mknodat
mkstemp
mktime
mlock
mlockall
mmap
modf
modff
modfl
mprotect
mq_close
mq_getattr
mq_notify
mq_open
mq_receive
mq_send
mq_setattr
mq_timedreceive
mq_timedsend
mq_unlink
mrand48
msgctl
msgget
msgrcv
msgsnd
msync
munlock
munlockall
munmap
nan
nanf
nanl
nanosleep
nearbyint
nearbyintf
nearbyintl
newlocale
nextafter
nextafterf
nextafterl
nexttoward
nexttowardf
nexttowardl
nftw
nice
nl_langinfo
nl_langinfo_l
nrand48
ntohl
ntohs
open
openat
opendir
openlog
open_memstream
open_wmemstream
optarg
opterr
optind
optopt
pathconf
pause
pclose
perror
pipe
poll
popen
posix_fadvise
posix_fallocate
posix_madvise
posix_mem_offset
posix_memalign
posix_openpt
posix_spawn
posix_spawn_file_actions_addclose
posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2
posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
posix_spawn_file_actions_destroy
posix_spawn_file_actions_init
posix_spawnattr_destroy
posix_spawnattr_getflags
posix_spawnattr_getpgroup
posix_spawnattr_getschedparam
posix_spawnattr_getschedpolicy
posix_spawnattr_getsigdefault
posix_spawnattr_getsigmask
posix_spawnattr_init
posix_spawnattr_setflags
posix_spawnattr_setpgroup
posix_spawnattr_setschedparam
posix_spawnattr_setschedpolicy
posix_spawnattr_setsigdefault
posix_spawnattr_setsigmask
posix_spawnp
posix_trace_attr_destroy
posix_trace_attr_getclockres
posix_trace_attr_getcreatetime
posix_trace_attr_getgenversion
posix_trace_attr_getinherited
posix_trace_attr_getlogfullpolicy
posix_trace_attr_getlogsize
posix_trace_attr_getmaxdatasize
posix_trace_attr_getmaxsystemeventsize
posix_trace_attr_getmaxusereventsize
posix_trace_attr_getname
posix_trace_attr_getstreamfullpolicy
posix_trace_attr_getstreamsize
posix_trace_attr_init
posix_trace_attr_setinherited
posix_trace_attr_setlogfullpolicy
posix_trace_attr_setlogsize
posix_trace_attr_setmaxdatasize
posix_trace_attr_setname
posix_trace_attr_setstreamfullpolicy
posix_trace_attr_setstreamsize
posix_trace_clear
posix_trace_close
posix_trace_create
posix_trace_create_withlog
posix_trace_event
posix_trace_eventid_equal
posix_trace_eventid_get_name
posix_trace_eventid_open
posix_trace_eventset_add
posix_trace_eventset_del
posix_trace_eventset_empty
posix_trace_eventset_fill
posix_trace_eventset_ismember
posix_trace_eventtypelist_getnext_id
posix_trace_eventtypelist_rewind
posix_trace_flush
posix_trace_get_attr
posix_trace_get_filter
posix_trace_get_status
posix_trace_getnext_event
posix_trace_open
posix_trace_rewind
posix_trace_set_filter
posix_trace_shutdown
posix_trace_start
posix_trace_stop
posix_trace_timedgetnext_event
posix_trace_trid_eventid_open
posix_trace_trygetnext_event
posix_typed_mem_get_info
posix_typed_mem_open
pow
powf
powl
pread
printf
pselect
psiginfo
psignal
pthread_atfork
pthread_attr_destroy
pthread_attr_getdetachstate
pthread_attr_getguardsize
pthread_attr_getinheritsched
pthread_attr_getschedparam
pthread_attr_getschedpolicy
pthread_attr_getscope
pthread_attr_getstack
pthread_attr_getstacksize
pthread_attr_init
pthread_attr_setdetachstate
pthread_attr_setguardsize
pthread_attr_setinheritsched
pthread_attr_setschedparam
pthread_attr_setschedpolicy
pthread_attr_setscope
pthread_attr_setstack
pthread_attr_setstacksize
pthread_barrier_destroy
pthread_barrier_init
pthread_barrier_wait
pthread_barrierattr_destroy
pthread_barrierattr_getpshared
pthread_barrierattr_init
pthread_barrierattr_setpshared
pthread_cancel
pthread_cleanup_pop
pthread_cleanup_push
pthread_cond_broadcast
pthread_cond_destroy
pthread_cond_init
pthread_cond_signal
pthread_cond_timedwait
pthread_cond_wait
pthread_condattr_destroy
pthread_condattr_getclock
pthread_condattr_getpshared
pthread_condattr_init
pthread_condattr_setclock
pthread_condattr_setpshared
pthread_create
pthread_detach
pthread_equal
pthread_exit
pthread_getconcurrency
pthread_getcpuclockid
pthread_getschedparam
pthread_getspecific
pthread_join
pthread_key_create
pthread_key_delete
pthread_kill
pthread_mutex_consistent
pthread_mutex_destroy
pthread_mutex_getprioceiling
pthread_mutex_init
pthread_mutex_lock
pthread_mutex_setprioceiling
pthread_mutex_timedlock
pthread_mutex_trylock
pthread_mutex_unlock
pthread_mutexattr_destroy
pthread_mutexattr_getprioceiling
pthread_mutexattr_getprotocol
pthread_mutexattr_getpshared
pthread_mutexattr_getrobust
pthread_mutexattr_gettype
pthread_mutexattr_init
pthread_mutexattr_setprioceiling
pthread_mutexattr_setprotocol
pthread_mutexattr_setpshared
pthread_mutexattr_setrobust
pthread_mutexattr_settype
pthread_once
pthread_rwlock_destroy
pthread_rwlock_init
pthread_rwlock_rdlock
pthread_rwlock_timedrdlock
pthread_rwlock_timedwrlock
pthread_rwlock_tryrdlock
pthread_rwlock_trywrlock
pthread_rwlock_unlock
pthread_rwlock_wrlock
pthread_rwlockattr_destroy
pthread_rwlockattr_getpshared
pthread_rwlockattr_init
pthread_rwlockattr_setpshared
pthread_self
pthread_setcancelstate
pthread_setcanceltype
pthread_setconcurrency
pthread_setschedparam
pthread_setschedprio
pthread_setspecific
pthread_sigmask
pthread_spin_destroy
pthread_spin_init
pthread_spin_lock
pthread_spin_trylock
pthread_spin_unlock
pthread_testcancel
ptsname
putc
putc_unlocked
putchar
putchar_unlocked
putenv
putmsg
putpmsg
puts
pututxline
putwc
putwchar
pwrite
qsort
quick_exit
raise
rand
rand_r
random
read
readdir
readdir_r
readlink
readlinkat
readv
realloc
realpath
recv
recvfrom
recvmsg
regcomp
regerror
regexec
regfree
remainder
remainderf
remainderl
remove
remque
remquo
remquof
remquol
rename
renameat
rewind
rewinddir
rint
rintf
rintl
rmdir
round
roundf
roundl
scalbln
scalblnf
scalblnl
scalbn
scalbnf
scalbnl
scandir
scanf
sched_get_priority_max
sched_get_priority_min
sched_getparam
sched_getscheduler
sched_rr_get_interval
sched_setparam
sched_setscheduler
sched_yield
seed48
seekdir
select
sem_close
sem_destroy
sem_getvalue
sem_init
sem_open
sem_post
sem_timedwait
sem_trywait
sem_unlink
sem_wait
semctl
semget
semop
send
sendmsg
sendto
setbuf
setegid
setenv
seteuid
setgid
setgrent
sethostent
setitimer
setjmp
setkey
setlocale
setlogmask
setnetent
setpgid
setpgrp
setpriority
setprotoent
setpwent
setregid
setreuid
setrlimit
setservent
setsid
setsockopt
setstate
setuid
setutxent
setvbuf
shm_open
shm_unlink
shmat
shmctl
shmdt
shmget
shutdown
sigaction
sigaddset
sigaltstack
sigdelset
sigemptyset
sigfillset
sighold
sigignore
siginterrupt
sigismember
siglongjmp
signal
signbit
signgam
sigpause
sigpending
sigprocmask
sigqueue
sigrelse
sigset
sigsetjmp
sigsuspend
sigtimedwait
sigwait
sigwaitinfo
sin
sinf
sinh
sinhf
sinhl
sinl
sleep
snprintf
sockatmark
socket
socketpair
sprintf
sqrt
sqrtf
sqrtl
srand
srand48
srandom
sscanf
stat
statvfs
stderr
stdin
stdout
stpcpy
stpncpy
strcasecmp
strcasecmp_l
strcat
strchr
strcmp
strcoll
strcoll_l
strcpy
strcspn
strdup
strerror
strerror_l
strerror_r
strfmon
strfmon_l
strftime
strftime_l
strlen
strncasecmp
strncasecmp_l
strncat
strncmp
strncpy
strndup
strnlen
strpbrk
strptime
strrchr
strsignal
strspn
strstr
strtod
strtof
strtoimax
strtok
strtok_r
strtol
strtold
strtoll
strtoul
strtoull
strtoumax
strxfrm
strxfrm_l
swab
swprintf
swscanf
symlink
symlinkat
sync
sysconf
syslog
system
tan
tanf
tanh
tanhf
tanhl
tanl
tcdrain
tcflow
tcflush
tcgetattr
tcgetpgrp
tcgetsid
tcsendbreak
tcsetattr
tcsetpgrp
tdelete
telldir
tempnam
tfind
tgamma
tgammaf
tgammal
time
timer_create
timer_delete
timer_getoverrun
timer_gettime
timer_settime
times
timezone
tmpfile
tmpnam
toascii
tolower
tolower_l
toupper
toupper_l
towctrans
towctrans_l
towlower
towlower_l
towupper
towupper_l
trunc
truncate
truncf
truncl
tsearch
ttyname
ttyname_r
twalk
tzname
tzset
ulimit
umask
uname
ungetc
ungetwc
unlink
unlinkat
unlockpt
unsetenv
uselocale
utime
utimensat
utimes
va_arg
va_copy
va_end
va_start
vdprintf
vfprintf
vfscanf
vfwprintf
vfwscanf
vprintf
vscanf
vsnprintf
vsprintf
vsscanf
vswprintf
vswscanf
vwprintf
vwscanf
wait
waitid
waitpid
wcpcpy
wcpncpy
wcrtomb
wcscasecmp
wcscasecmp_l
wcscat
wcschr
wcscmp
wcscoll
wcscoll_l
wcscpy
wcscspn
wcsdup
wcsftime
wcslen
wcsncasecmp
wcsncasecmp_l
wcsncat
wcsncmp
wcsncpy
wcsnlen
wcsnrtombs
wcspbrk
wcsrchr
wcsrtombs
wcsspn
wcsstr
wcstod
wcstof
wcstoimax
wcstok
wcstol
wcstold
wcstoll
wcstombs
wcstoul
wcstoull
wcstoumax
wcswidth
wcsxfrm
wcsxfrm_l
wctob
wctomb
wctrans
wctrans_l
wctype
wctype_l
wcwidth
wmemchr
wmemcmp
wmemcpy
wmemmove
wmemset
wordexp
wordfree
wprintf
write
writev
wscanf
y0
y1
yn
bcmp
bcopy
bsd_signal
bzero
ecvt
fcvt
ftime
gcvt
getcontext
gethostbyaddr
gethostbyname
getwd
h_errno
index
makecontext
mktemp
pthread_attr_getstackaddr
pthread_attr_setstackaddr
rindex
scalb
setcontext
swapcontext
ualarm
usleep
vfork
wcswcs
<aio.h>
<aliases.h>
<argp.h>
<argz.h>
<arpa/inet.h>
<byteswap.h>
<complex.h>
<crypt.h>
<ctype.h>
<dirent.h>
<dlfcn.h>
<envz.h>
<err.h>
<errno.h>
<error.h>
<execinfo.h>
<fcntl.h>
<fenv.h>
<fmtmsg.h>
<fstab.h>
<fts.h>
<getopt.h>
<glob.h>
<gnu/libc-version.h>
<grp.h>
<gshadow.h>
<ifaddrs.h>
<libintl.h>
<link.h>
<malloc.h>
<math.h>
drem
dremf
dreml
exp10
exp10f
exp10l
finite
finitef
finitel
gamma
gammaf
gammal
isinff
isinfl
isnanf
isnanl
j0f
j0l
j1f
j1l
jnf
jnl
lgamma_r
lgammaf_r
lgammal_r
matherr
pow10
pow10f
pow10l
scalbf
scalbl
significand
significandf
significandl
sincos
sincosf
sincosl
y0f
y0l
y1f
y1l
ynf
ynl
<mcheck.h>
<mntent.h>
<netdb.h>
endnetgrent
gethostbyaddr_r
gethostbyname2
gethostbyname2_r
gethostbyname_r
gethostent_r
getnetbyaddr_r
getnetbyname_r
getnetent_r
getnetgrent
getnetgrent_r
getprotobyname_r
getprotobynumber_r
getprotoent_r
getservbyname_r
getservbyport_r
getservent_r
herror
hstrerror
innetgr
rcmd
rcmd_af
rexec
rexec_af
rresvport
rresvport_af
ruserok
ruserok_af
setnetgrent
<netinet/ether.h>
<netinet/in.h>
bindresvport
getipv4sourcefilter
getsourcefilter
in6addr_any
in6addr_loopback
inet6_option_alloc
inet6_option_append
inet6_option_find
inet6_option_init
inet6_option_next
inet6_option_space
inet6_opt_append
inet6_opt_find
inet6_opt_finish
inet6_opt_get_val
inet6_opt_init
inet6_opt_next
inet6_opt_set_val
inet6_rth_add
inet6_rth_getaddr
inet6_rth_init
inet6_rth_reverse
inet6_rth_segments
inet6_rth_space
setipv4sourcefilter
setsourcefilter
<obstack.h>
<printf.h>
<pthread.h>
pthread_attr_getaffinity_np
pthread_attr_setaffinity_np
pthread_getaffinity_np
pthread_getattr_np
pthread_getname_np
pthread_kill_other_threads_np
pthread_mutex_consistent_np
pthread_mutexattr_getrobust_np
pthread_mutexattr_setrobust_np
pthread_rwlockattr_getkind_np
pthread_rwlockattr_setkind_np
pthread_setaffinity_np
pthread_setname_np
pthread_sigqueue
pthread_timedjoin_np
pthread_tryjoin_np
pthread_yield
<pty.h>
<pwd.h>
<regex.h>
<regexp.h>
<resolv.h>
<rpc/auth.h>
authdes_create
authdes_pk_create
authnone_create
authunix_create
authunix_create_default
getnetname
host2netname
key_decryptsession
key_decryptsession_pk
key_encryptsession
key_encryptsession_pk
key_gendes
key_get_conv
key_secretkey_is_set
key_setsecret
netname2host
netname2user
user2netname
xdr_des_block
xdr_opaque_auth
<rpc/auth_des.h>
<rpc/auth_unix.h>
<rpc/clnt.h>
callrpc
clnt_create
clnt_pcreateerror
clnt_perrno
clnt_perror
clnt_spcreateerror
clnt_sperrno
clnt_sperror
clntraw_create
clnttcp_create
clntudp_bufcreate
clntudp_create
clntunix_create
get_myaddress
getrpcport
rpc_createerr
<rpc/des_crypt.h>
<rpc/key_prot.h>
<rpc/netdb.h>
<rpc/pmap_clnt.h>
<rpc/pmap_prot.h>
<rpc/pmap_rmt.h>
<rpc/rpc_msg.h>
<rpc/svc.h>
svc_exit
svc_fdset
svc_getreq
svc_getreq_common
svc_getreq_poll
svc_getreqset
svc_max_pollfd
svc_pollfd
svc_register
svc_run
svc_sendreply
svc_unregister
svcerr_auth
svcerr_decode
svcerr_noproc
svcerr_noprog
svcerr_progvers
svcerr_systemerr
svcerr_weakauth
svcraw_create
svctcp_create
svcudp_bufcreate
svcudp_create
svcunix_create
xprt_register
xprt_unregister
<rpc/xdr.h>
xdr_array
xdr_bool
xdr_bytes
xdr_char
xdr_double
xdr_enum
xdr_float
xdr_free
xdr_hyper
xdr_int
xdr_int16_t
xdr_int32_t
xdr_int64_t
xdr_int8_t
xdr_long
xdr_longlong_t
xdr_netobj
xdr_opaque
xdr_pointer
xdr_quad_t
xdr_reference
xdr_short
xdr_sizeof
xdr_string
xdr_u_char
xdr_u_hyper
xdr_u_int
xdr_u_long
xdr_u_longlong_t
xdr_u_quad_t
xdr_u_short
xdr_uint16_t
xdr_uint32_t
xdr_uint64_t
xdr_uint8_t
xdr_union
xdr_vector
xdr_void
xdr_wrapstring
xdrmem_create
xdrrec_create
xdrrec_endofrecord
xdrrec_eof
xdrrec_skiprecord
xdrstdio_create
<rpcsvc/nislib.h>
nis_add
nis_add_entry
nis_addmember
nis_checkpoint
nis_clone_object
nis_creategroup
nis_destroy_object
nis_destroygroup
nis_dir_cmp
nis_domain_of
nis_domain_of_r
nis_first_entry
nis_freenames
nis_freeresult
nis_freeservlist
nis_freetags
nis_getnames
nis_getservlist
nis_ismember
nis_leaf_of
nis_leaf_of_r
nis_lerror
nis_list
nis_local_directory
nis_local_group
nis_local_host
nis_local_principal
nis_lookup
nis_mkdir
nis_modify
nis_modify_entry
nis_name_of
nis_name_of_r
nis_next_entry
nis_perror
nis_ping
nis_print_directory
nis_print_entry
nis_print_group
nis_print_group_entry
nis_print_link
nis_print_object
nis_print_result
nis_print_rights
nis_print_table
nis_remove
nis_remove_entry
nis_removemember
nis_rmdir
nis_servstate
nis_sperrno
nis_sperror
nis_sperror_r
nis_stats
nis_verifygroup
<rpcsvc/nis_callback.h>
<rpcsvc/yp.h>
xdr_domainname
xdr_keydat
xdr_mapname
xdr_peername
xdr_valdat
xdr_ypbind_binding
xdr_ypbind_resp
xdr_ypbind_resptype
xdr_ypbind_setdom
xdr_ypmap_parms
xdr_ypmaplist
xdr_yppush_status
xdr_yppushresp_xfr
xdr_ypreq_key
xdr_ypreq_nokey
xdr_ypreq_xfr
xdr_ypresp_all
xdr_ypresp_key_val
xdr_ypresp_maplist
xdr_ypresp_master
xdr_ypresp_order
xdr_ypresp_val
xdr_ypresp_xfr
xdr_ypstat
xdr_ypxfrstat
<rpcsvc/yp_prot.h>
<rpcsvc/ypclnt.h>
<rpcsvc/ypupd.h>
<sched.h>
<search.h>
<selinux/selinux.h>
<shadow.h>
<signal.h>
<stdio.h>
asprintf
cuserid
clearerr_unlocked
fcloseall
feof_unlocked
ferror_unlocked
fflush_unlocked
fgetc_unlocked
fgets_unlocked
fileno_unlocked
fopencookie
fputc_unlocked
fputs_unlocked
fread_unlocked
fwrite_unlocked
getw
putw
setbuffer
setlinebuf
sys_errlist
sys_nerr
tmpnam_r
vasprintf
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canonicalize_file_name
cfree
clearenv
drand48_r
ecvt_r
erand48_r
fcvt_r
getloadavg
getpt
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jrand48_r
lcong48_r
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on_exit
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qgcvt
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random_r
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This manual is for GNU Gnulib (updated 2013-01-15 20:24:21), which is a library of common routines intended to be shared at the source level.
Copyright © 2004–2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled “GNU Free Documentation License”.
Gnulib is a source code library that provides basic functionality to programs and libraries. Many software packages make use of Gnulib to avoid reinventing the portability wheel.
Resources:
While portability across operating systems is not one of GNU's primary goals, it has helped introduce many people to the GNU system, and is worthwhile when it can be achieved at a low cost. This collection helps lower that cost.
Gnulib is intended to be the canonical source for most of the important “portability” and/or common files for GNU projects. These are files intended to be shared at the source level; Gnulib is not a typical library meant to be installed and linked against. Thus, unlike most projects, Gnulib does not normally generate a source tarball distribution; instead, developers grab modules directly from the source repository.
The easiest, and recommended, way to do this is to use the gnulib-tool script. Since there is no installation procedure for Gnulib, gnulib-tool needs to be run directly in the directory that contains the Gnulib source code. You can do this either by specifying the absolute filename of gnulib-tool, or by using a symbolic link from a place inside your PATH to the gnulib-tool file of your preferred Gnulib checkout. For example:
$ ln -s $HOME/gnu/src/gnulib.git/gnulib-tool $HOME/bin/gnulib-tool
Gnulib is available for anonymous checkout. In any Bourne-shell the following should work:
$ git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/gnulib.git
For a read-write checkout you need to have a login on ‘savannah.gnu.org’ and be a member of the Gnulib project at http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnulib. Then, instead of the URL git://git.sv.gnu.org/gnulib, use the URL ‘ssh://user@git.sv.gnu.org/srv/git/gnulib’ where user is your login name on savannah.gnu.org.
git resources:
When you use git annotate or git blame with Gnulib, it's
recommended that you use the -w option, in order to ignore
massive whitespace changes that happened in 2009.
CVS checkouts are also supported:
$ cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@pserver.git.sv.gnu.org:/gnulib.git co -d gnulib HEAD
The best way to work with Gnulib is to check it out of git.
To synchronize, you can use git pull,
or cvs update -dP if you are still using CVS.
Subscribing to the bug-gnulib@gnu.org mailing list will help you to plan when to update your local copy of Gnulib (which you use to maintain your software) from git. You can review the archives, subscribe, etc., via https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnulib.
Sometimes, using an updated version of Gnulib will require you to use newer versions of GNU Automake or Autoconf. You may find it helpful to join the autotools-announce mailing list to be advised of such changes.
All software here is copyrighted by the Free Software Foundation—you need to have filled out an assignment form for a project that uses the module for that contribution to be accepted here.
If you have a piece of code that you would like to contribute, please email bug-gnulib@gnu.org.
Generally we are looking for files that fulfill at least one of the following requirements:
If your functions define completely new but rarely used functionality, you should probably consider packaging it as a separate library.
Gnulib contains code both under GPL and LGPL. Because several packages that use Gnulib are GPL, the files state they are licensed under GPL. However, to support LGPL projects as well, you may use some of the files under LGPL. The “License:” information in the files under modules/ clarifies the real license that applies to the module source.
Keep in mind that if you submit patches to files in Gnulib, you should license them under a compatible license, which means that sometimes the contribution will have to be LGPL, if the original file is available under LGPL via a “License: LGPL” information in the projects' modules/ file.
We use space-only indentation in nearly all files. This includes all
*.h, *.c, *.y files, except for the regex
module. Makefile and ChangeLog files are excluded, since TAB
characters are part of their format.
In order to tell your editor to produce space-only indentation, you can use these instructions.
;; In Gnulib, indent with spaces everywhere (not TABs).
;; Exceptions: Makefile and ChangeLog modes.
(add-hook 'find-file-hook '(lambda ()
(if (and buffer-file-name
(string-match "/gnulib\\>" (buffer-file-name))
(not (string-equal mode-name "Change Log"))
(not (string-equal mode-name "Makefile")))
(setq indent-tabs-mode nil))))
" Don't use tabs for indentation. Spaces are nicer to work with.
set expandtab
For Makefile and ChangeLog files, compensate for this by adding this to your $HOME/.vim/after/indent/make.vim file, and similarly for your $HOME/.vim/after/indent/changelog.vim file:
" Use tabs for indentation, regardless of the global setting.
set noexpandtab
If you use the GNU indent program, pass it the option --no-tabs.
You can test that a module builds correctly with:
$ ./gnulib-tool --create-testdir --dir=/tmp/testdir module1 ... moduleN
$ cd /tmp/testdir
$ ./configure && make
Other things:
alloca and fnmatch modules for how to achieve this. If
for some reason you cannot do this, and you have a .c file that
leads to an empty .o file on some platforms (through some big
#if around all the code), then ensure that the compilation unit
is not empty after preprocessing. One way to do this is to
#include <stddef.h> or <stdio.h> before the big
#if.
Gnulib code is intended to be portable to a wide variety of platforms, not just GNU platforms. See the documentation section “Target Platforms” for details.
Many Gnulib modules exist so that applications need not worry about
undesirable variability in implementations. For example, an
application that uses the malloc module need not worry about
malloc (0) returning NULL on some Standard C
platforms; and time_r users need not worry about
localtime_r returning int (not char *) on some
platforms that predate POSIX 1003.1-2001.
Currently we assume at least a freestanding C89 compiler, possibly operating with a C library that predates C89. The oldest environments currently ported to are probably HP-UX 10.20 and IRIX 5.3, though we are not testing these platforms very often.
Because we assume a freestanding C89 compiler, Gnulib code can include
<float.h>, <limits.h>, <stdarg.h>, and
<stddef.h> unconditionally. It can also assume the existence
of <ctype.h>, <errno.h>, <fcntl.h>,
<locale.h>, <signal.h>, <stdio.h>,
<stdlib.h>, <string.h>, and <time.h>. Similarly,
many modules include <sys/types.h> even though it's not even in
C99; that's OK since <sys/types.h> has been around nearly
forever.
Even if the include files exist, they may not conform to C89. However, GCC has a fixincludes script that attempts to fix most C89-conformance problems. So Gnulib currently assumes include files largely conform to C89 or better. People still using ancient hosts should use fixincludes or fix their include files manually.
Even if the include files conform to C89, the library itself may not.
For example, strtod and mktime have some bugs on some platforms.
You can work around some of these problems by requiring the relevant
modules, e.g., the Gnulib mktime module supplies a working and
conforming mktime.
The GNU coding standards allow one departure from strict C99: Gnulib
code can assume that standard internal types like size_t are no wider
than long. POSIX 1003.1-2001 and the GNU coding standards both
require int to be at least 32 bits wide, so Gnulib code assumes this
as well. Gnulib code makes the following additional assumptions:
Previously, Gnulib code sometimes assumed that signed integer arithmetic wraps around, but modern compiler optimizations sometimes do not guarantee this, and Gnulib code with this assumption is now considered to be questionable. See Integer Properties.
Some Gnulib modules contain explicit support for the other signed integer representations allowed by C99 (ones' complement and signed magnitude), but these modules are the exception rather than the rule. All practical Gnulib targets use two's complement.
size_t values, then S + T cannot overflow.
(char *) &O <= (char *) P && (char *) P <
(char *) (&O + 1).
+ T cannot overflow.
Overflow in this case would mean that the rest of your program fits
into T bytes, which can't happen in realistic flat-address-space
hosts.
memset (A, 0, sizeof A) initializes an array A of
pointers to NULL.
0 + (char *) NULL == (char *) NULL.
The above assumptions are not required by the C or POSIX standards but hold on all practical porting targets that we're familiar with. If you have a porting target where these assumptions are not true, we'd appreciate hearing of any fixes. We need fixes that do not increase runtime overhead on standard hosts and that are relatively easy to maintain.
With the above caveats, Gnulib code should port without problem to new
hosts, e.g., hosts conforming to C99 or to recent POSIX standards.
Hence Gnulib code should avoid using constructs (e.g., undeclared
functions return int) that do not conform to C99.
We develop and maintain a testsuite for Gnulib. The goal is to have a 100% firm interface so that maintainers can feel free to update to the code in git at any time and know that their application will not break. This means that before any change can be committed to the repository, a test suite program must be produced that exposes the bug for regression testing. All experimental work should be done on branches to help promote this.
Gnulib's design and development philosophy is organized around steady, collaborative, and open development of reusable modules that are suitable for a reasonably wide variety of platforms.
Gnulib is useful to enhance various aspects of a package:
asprintf, canonicalize_file_name are not affected
by buffer sizing problems that affect sprintf, realpath.
openat does not have the race conditions that open has. Etc.
xalloc,
xprintf, xstrtod, xgetcwd.
Classical libraries are installed as binary object code. Gnulib is
different: It is used as a source code library. Each package that uses
Gnulib thus ships with part of the Gnulib source code. The used portion
of Gnulib is tailored to the package: A build tool, called
gnulib-tool, is provided that copies a tailored subset of Gnulib
into the package.
One of the goals of Gnulib is to make portable programming easy, on the basis of the standards relevant for GNU (and Unix). The objective behind that is to avoid a fragmentation of the user community into disjoint user communities according to the operating system, and instead allow synergies between users on different operating systems.
Another goal of Gnulib is to provide application code that can be shared between several applications. Some people wonder: "What? glibc doesn't have a function to copy a file?" Indeed, the scope of a system's libc is to implement the relevant standards (ISO C, POSIX) and to provide access functions to the kernel's system calls, and little more.
There is no clear borderline between both areas.
For example, Gnulib has a facility for generating the name of backup files. While this task is entirely at the application level—no standard specifies an API for it—the naïve code has some portability problems because on some platforms the length of file name components is limited to 30 characters or so. Gnulib handles that.
Similarly, Gnulib has a facility for executing a command in a
subprocess. It is at the same time a portability enhancement (it
works on GNU, Unix, and Windows, compared to the classical
fork/exec idiom which is not portable to Windows), as well
as an application aid: it takes care of redirecting stdin and/or
stdout if desired, and emits an error message if the subprocess
failed.
Gnulib supports a number of platforms that we call the “reasonable portability targets”. This class consists of widespread operating systems, for three years after their last availability, or—for proprietary operating systems—as long as the vendor provides commercial support for it. Already existing Gnulib code for older operating systems is usually left in place for longer than these three years. So it comes that programs that use Gnulib run pretty well also on these older operating systems.
Some operating systems are not very widespread, but are Free Software and are actively developed. Such platforms are also supported by Gnulib, if that OS's developers community keeps in touch with the Gnulib developers, by providing bug reports, analyses, or patches. For such platforms, Gnulib supports only the versions of the last year or the last few months, depending on the maturity of said OS project, the number of its users, and how often these users upgrade.
Niche operating systems are generally unsupported by Gnulib, unless some of their developers or users contribute support to Gnulib.
The degree of support Gnulib guarantees for a platform depends on the amount of testing it gets from volunteers. Platforms on which Gnulib is frequently tested are the best supported. Then come platforms with occasional testing, then platforms which are rarely tested. Usually, we fix bugs when they are reported. Except that some rarely tested platforms are also low priority; bug fixes for these platforms can take longer.
As of 2011, the list of supported platforms is the following:
mgetgroups, getugroups, idcache,
userspec, openpty, login_tty, forkpty,
pt_chown, grantpt, pty, savewd,
mkancesdirs, mkdir-p, euidaccess, faccessat.
The versions of Windows that are supported are Windows XP and newer.
suacomp library
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/suacomp/) in version 0.6.8 or newer.
Interix 3.5 is not tested.
Gnulib supports these operating systems only in an unvirtualized environment. When you run an OS inside a virtual machine, you have to be aware that the virtual machine can bring in bugs of its own. For example, floating-point operations on Solaris can behave slightly differently in QEMU than on real hardware. And Haiku's bash program misbehaves in VirtualBox 3, whereas it behaves fine in VirtualBox 4.
Similarly, running native Windows binaries on GNU/Linux under WINE is rarely tested and low priority: WINE has a set of behaviours and bugs that is slightly different from native Windows.
The following platforms are not supported by Gnulib. The cost of supporting them would exceed the benefit because they are rarely used, or poorly documented, or have been supplanted by other platforms, or diverge too much from POSIX, or some combination of these and other factors. Please don't bother sending us patches for them.
Gnulib is divided into modules. Every module implements a single facility. Modules can depend on other modules.
A module consists of a number of files and a module description. The
files are copied by gnulib-tool into the package that will use it,
usually verbatim, without changes. Source code files (.h, .c files)
reside in the lib/ subdirectory. Autoconf macro files reside in
the m4/ subdirectory. Build scripts reside in the
build-aux/ subdirectory.
The module description contains the list of files; gnulib-tool
copies these files. It contains the module's
dependencies; gnulib-tool installs them as well. It also
contains the autoconf macro invocation (usually a single line or
nothing at all); gnulib-tool ensures this is invoked from the
package's configure.ac file. And also a Makefile.am
snippet; gnulib-tool collects these into a Makefile.am
for the tailored Gnulib part. The module description and include file
specification are for documentation purposes; they are combined into
MODULES.html.
The module system serves two purposes:
getopt_long function—this is a common way to implement parsing
of command line options in a way that complies with the GNU standards—needs
the source code (lib/getopt.c and others), the autoconf macro
which detects whether the system's libc already has this function (in
m4/getopt.m4), and a few Makefile.am lines that create the
substitute getopt.h if not. These three pieces belong together.
They cannot be used without each other. The module description and
gnulib-tool ensure that they are copied altogether into the
destination package.
In other words, the module is the elementary unit of code in Gnulib, comparable to a class in object-oriented languages like Java or C#.
The module system is the basis of gnulib-tool. When
gnulib-tool copies a part of Gnulib into a package, it first
compiles a module list, starting with the requested modules and adding all
the dependencies, and then collects the files, configure.ac
snippets and Makefile.am snippets.
There are modules of various kinds in Gnulib. For a complete list of the modules, see in MODULES.html.
When a function is not implemented by a system, the Gnulib module provides an implementation under the same name. Examples are the ‘snprintf’ and ‘readlink’ modules.
Similarly, when a function is not correctly implemented by a system, Gnulib provides a replacement. For functions, we use the pattern
#if !HAVE_WORKING_FOO
# define foo rpl_foo
#endif
and implement the foo function under the name rpl_foo. This
renaming is needed to avoid conflicts at compile time (in case the system
header files declare foo) and at link/run time (because the code
making use of foo could end up residing in a shared library, and
the executable program using this library could be defining foo
itself).
For header files, such as stdbool.h or stdint.h, we provide
the substitute only if the system doesn't provide a correct one. The
template of this replacement is distributed in a slightly different name,
with ‘.in’ inserted before the ‘.h’ extension, so that on
systems which do provide a correct
header file the system's one is used.
These are sometimes POSIX functions with GNU extensions also found in glibc—examples: ‘getopt’, ‘fnmatch’—and often new APIs—for example, for all functions that allocate memory in one way or the other, we have variants which also include the error checking against the out-of-memory condition.
Examples are a module for copying a file—the portability problems
relate to the copying of the file's modification time, access rights,
and extended attributes—or a module for extracting the tail
component of a file name—here the portability to native Windows
requires a different API than the classical POSIX basename function.
Examples are an error reporting function, a module that allows output of numbers with K/M/G suffixes, or cryptographic facilities.
Examples are data structures like ‘list’, or abstract output stream
classes that work around the fact that an application cannot implement an
stdio FILE with its logic. Here, while staying in C, we use
implementation techniques like tables of function pointers, known from the
C++ language or from the Linux kernel.
Examples are the ‘iconv’ module, which interfaces to the
iconv facility, regardless whether it is contained in libc or in
an external libiconv. Or the ‘readline’ module, which
interfaces to the GNU readline library.
An example is the ‘maintainer-makefile’ module, which provides extra Makefile tags for maintaining a package.
Gnulib is maintained collaboratively. The mailing list is
<bug-gnulib at gnu dot org>. Be warned that some people on the
list may be very active at some times and unresponsive at other times.
Every module has one or more maintainers. While issues are discussed collaboratively on the list, the maintainer of a module nevertheless has a veto right regarding changes in his module.
All patches should be posted the list, regardless whether they are proposed patches or whether they are committed immediately by the maintainer of the particular module. The purpose is not only to inform the other users of the module, but mainly to allow peer review. It is not uncommon that several people contribute comments or spot bugs after a patch was proposed.
Conversely, if you are using Gnulib, and a patch is posted that affects one of the modules that your package uses, you have an interest in proofreading the patch.
Most modules are under the GPL. Some, mostly modules which can reasonably be used in libraries, are under LGPL. The source files always say "GPL", but the real license specification is in the module description file. If the module description file says "GPL", it means "GPLv3+" (GPLv3 or newer, at the licensee's choice); if it says "LGPL", it means "LGPLv3+" (LGPLv3 or newer, at the licensee's choice).
More precisely, the license specification in the module description file applies to the files in lib/ and build-aux/. Different licenses apply to files in special directories:
Copyright © 20XX–20YY Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, in any medium, are permitted without royalty provided the copyright notice and this notice are preserved.
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If you want to use some Gnulib modules under LGPL, you can do so by
passing the option ‘--lgpl’ to gnulib-tool. This will
replace the GPL header with an LGPL header while copying the source
files to your package. Similarly, if you want some Gnulib modules
under LGPLv2+ (Lesser GPL version 2.1 or newer), you can do so by
passing the option ‘--lgpl=2’ to gnulib-tool.
Keep in mind that when you submit patches to files in Gnulib, you should license them under a compatible license. This means that sometimes the contribution will have to be LGPL, if the original file is available under LGPL. You can find out about it by looking for a "License: LGPL" information in the corresponding module description.
Gnulib modules are continually adapted, to match new practices, to be consistent with newly added modules, or simply as a response to build failure reports. Gnulib is available in two qualities:
If you are willing to report an occasional regression, we recommend to use the newest version always, except in periods of major changes. Most Gnulib users do this. If you prefer stable releases, please use the newest stable release.
Gnulib is open in the sense that we gladly accept contributions if they are generally useful, well engineered, and if the contributors have signed the obligatory papers with the FSF.
The module system is open in the sense that a package using Gnulib can
gnulib-tool.
This is achieved by the ‘--local-dir’ option of gnulib-tool
(see Extending Gnulib).
The gnulib-tool command is the recommended way to import Gnulib modules. It is possible to borrow Gnulib modules in a package without using gnulib-tool, relying only on the meta-information stored in the modules/* files, but with a growing number of modules this becomes tedious. gnulib-tool simplifies the management of source files, Makefile.ams and configure.ac in packages incorporating Gnulib modules.
gnulib-tool is not installed in a standard directory that is
contained in the PATH variable. It needs to be run directly in
the directory that contains the Gnulib source code. You can do this
either by specifying the absolute filename of gnulib-tool, or
you can also use a symbolic link from a place inside your PATH
to the gnulib-tool file of your preferred and most up-to-date
Gnulib checkout, like this:
$ ln -s $HOME/gnu/src/gnulib.git/gnulib-tool $HOME/bin/gnulib-tool
Run ‘gnulib-tool --help’ for information. To get familiar with
gnulib-tool without affecting your sources, you can also try
some commands with the option ‘--dry-run’; then
gnulib-tool will only report which actions it would perform in
a real run without changing anything.
There are three ways of finding the names of Gnulib modules that you can use in your package:
Gnulib assumes that your project uses Autoconf. When using Gnulib, you will need to have Autoconf and Automake among your build tools. Note that while the use of Automake in your project's top level directory is an easy way to fulfil the Makefile conventions of the GNU coding standards, Gnulib does not require it. But when you use Gnulib, Automake will be used at least in a subdirectory of your project.
Invoking ‘gnulib-tool --import’ will copy source files, create a Makefile.am to build them, generate a file gnulib-comp.m4 with Autoconf M4 macro declarations used by configure.ac, and generate a file gnulib-cache.m4 containing the cached specification of how Gnulib is used.
Our example will be a library that uses Autoconf, Automake and
Libtool. It calls strdup, and you wish to use gnulib to make
the package portable to C89 and C99 (which don't have strdup).
~/src/libfoo$ gnulib-tool --import strdup
Module list with included dependencies:
absolute-header
extensions
strdup
string
File list:
lib/dummy.c
lib/strdup.c
lib/string.in.h
m4/absolute-header.m4
m4/extensions.m4
m4/gnulib-common.m4
m4/strdup.m4
m4/string_h.m4
Creating directory ./lib
Creating directory ./m4
Copying file lib/dummy.c
Copying file lib/strdup.c
Copying file lib/string.in.h
Copying file m4/absolute-header.m4
Copying file m4/extensions.m4
Copying file m4/gnulib-common.m4
Copying file m4/gnulib-tool.m4
Copying file m4/strdup.m4
Copying file m4/string_h.m4
Creating lib/Makefile.am
Creating m4/gnulib-cache.m4
Creating m4/gnulib-comp.m4
Finished.
You may need to add #include directives for the following .h files.
#include <string.h>
Don't forget to
- add "lib/Makefile" to AC_CONFIG_FILES in ./configure.ac,
- mention "lib" in SUBDIRS in Makefile.am,
- mention "-I m4" in ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS in Makefile.am,
- invoke gl_EARLY in ./configure.ac, right after AC_PROG_CC,
- invoke gl_INIT in ./configure.ac.
~/src/libfoo$
By default, the source code is copied into lib/ and the M4
macros in m4/. You can override these paths by using
--source-base=DIRECTORY and --m4-base=DIRECTORY. Some
modules also provide other files necessary for building. These files
are copied into the directory specified by ‘AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR’ in
configure.ac or by the --aux-dir=DIRECTORY option. If
neither is specified, the current directory is assumed.
gnulib-tool can make symbolic links instead of copying the
source files. The option to specify for this is ‘--symlink’, or
‘-s’ for short. This can be useful to save a few kilobytes of disk
space. But it is likely to introduce bugs when gnulib is updated;
it is more reliable to use ‘gnulib-tool --update’ (see below)
to update to newer versions of gnulib. Furthermore it requires
extra effort to create self-contained tarballs, and it may disturb some
mechanism the maintainer applies to the sources. For these reasons,
this option is generally discouraged.
gnulib-tool will overwrite any pre-existing files, in
particular Makefile.am. It is also possible to separate the
generated Makefile.am content (for building the gnulib library)
into a separate file, say gnulib.mk, that can be included by your
handwritten Makefile.am, but this is a more advanced use of
gnulib-tool.
Consequently, it is a good idea to choose directories that are not
already used by your projects, to separate gnulib imported files from
your own files. This approach is also useful if you want to avoid
conflicts between other tools (e.g., gettextize that also copy
M4 files into your package. Simon Josefsson successfully uses a source
base of gl/, and a M4 base of gl/m4/, in several
packages.
After the ‘--import’ option on the command line comes the list of Gnulib modules that you want to incorporate in your package. The names of the modules coincide with the filenames in Gnulib's modules/ directory.
Some Gnulib modules depend on other Gnulib modules. gnulib-tool
will automatically add the needed modules as well; you need not list
them explicitly. gnulib-tool will also memorize which dependent
modules it has added, so that when someday a dependency is dropped, the
implicitly added module is dropped as well (unless you have explicitly
requested that module).
If you want to cut a dependency, i.e., not add a module although one of your requested modules depends on it, you may use the option ‘--avoid=module’ to do so. Multiple uses of this option are possible. Of course, you will then need to implement the same interface as the removed module.
A few manual steps are required to finish the initial import.
gnulib-tool printed a summary of these steps.
First, you must ensure Autoconf can find the macro definitions in
gnulib-comp.m4. Use the ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS specifier in
your top-level Makefile.am file, as in:
ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -I m4
You are now ready to call the M4 macros in gnulib-comp.m4 from
configure.ac. The macro gl_EARLY must be called as soon
as possible after verifying that the C compiler is working.
Typically, this is immediately after AC_PROG_CC, as in:
...
AC_PROG_CC
gl_EARLY
...
If you are using AC_PROG_CC_STDC, the macro gl_EARLY must
be called after it, like this:
...
AC_PROG_CC
AC_PROG_CC_STDC
gl_EARLY
...
The core part of the gnulib checks are done by the macro
gl_INIT. Place it further down in the file, typically where
you normally check for header files or functions. It must come after
other checks which may affect the compiler invocation, such as
AC_MINIX. For example:
...
# For gnulib.
gl_INIT
...
gl_INIT will in turn call the macros related with the
gnulib functions, be it specific gnulib macros, like gl_FUNC_ALLOCA
or autoconf or automake macros like AC_FUNC_ALLOCA or
AM_FUNC_GETLINE. So there is no need to call those macros yourself
when you use the corresponding gnulib modules.
You must also make sure that the gnulib library is built. Add the
Makefile in the gnulib source base directory to
AC_CONFIG_FILES, as in:
AC_CONFIG_FILES(... lib/Makefile ...)
You must also make sure that make will recurse into the gnulib
directory. To achieve this, add the gnulib source base directory to a
SUBDIRS Makefile.am statement, as in:
SUBDIRS = lib
or if you, more likely, already have a few entries in SUBDIRS,
you can add something like:
SUBDIRS += lib
Finally, you have to add compiler and linker flags in the appropriate source directories, so that you can make use of the gnulib library. Since some modules (‘getopt’, for example) may copy files into the build directory, top_builddir/lib is needed as well as top_srcdir/lib. For example:
...
AM_CPPFLAGS = -I$(top_builddir)/lib -I$(top_srcdir)/lib
...
LDADD = lib/libgnu.a
...
Don't forget to #include the various header files. In this
example, you would need to make sure that ‘#include <string.h>’
is evaluated when compiling all source code files, that want to make
use of strdup.
In the usual case where Autoconf is creating a config.h file, you should include config.h first, before any other include file. That way, for example, if config.h defines ‘restrict’ to be the empty string on a pre-C99 host, or a macro like ‘_FILE_OFFSET_BITS’ that affects the layout of data structures, the definition is consistent for all include files. Also, on some platforms macros like ‘_FILE_OFFSET_BITS’ and ‘_GNU_SOURCE’ may be ineffective, or may have only a limited effect, if defined after the first system header file is included.
Finally, note that you cannot use AC_LIBOBJ or
AC_REPLACE_FUNCS in your configure.ac and expect the
resulting object files to be automatically added to lib/libgnu.a.
This is because your AC_LIBOBJ and AC_REPLACE_FUNCS invocations
from configure.ac augment a variable @LIBOBJS@ (and/or
@LTLIBOBJS@ if using Libtool), whereas lib/libgnu.a
is built from the contents of a different variable, usually
@gl_LIBOBJS@ (or @gl_LTLIBOBJS@ if using Libtool).
You can at any moment decide to use Gnulib differently than the last time.
There are two ways to change how Gnulib is used. Which one you'll use,
depends on where you keep track of options and module names that you pass
to gnulib-tool.
gnulib-tool remembers which modules were used last time. If you
want to rely on gnulib-tool's own memory of the last used
options and module names, you can use the commands
gnulib-tool --add-import and
gnulib-tool --remove-import.
So, if you only want to use more Gnulib modules, simply invoke gnulib-tool --add-import new-modules. The list of modules that you pass after ‘--add-import’ is added to the previous list of modules.
Similarly, if you want to use fewer Gnulib modules, simply invoke gnulib-tool --remove-import unneeded-modules. The list of modules that you pass after ‘--remove-import’ is removed from the previous list of modules. Note that if a module is then still needed as dependency of other modules, it will be used nevertheless. If you want to really not use a module any more, regardless of whether other modules may need it, you need to use the ‘--avoid’ option.
For other changes, such as different choices of ‘--lib’, ‘--source-base’ or ‘--aux-dir’, the normal way is to modify manually the file gnulib-cache.m4 in the M4 macros directory, then launch ‘gnulib-tool --add-import’.
The only change for which this doesn't work is a change of the
‘--m4-base’ directory. Because, when you pass a different value of
‘--m4-base’, gnulib-tool will not find the previous
gnulib-cache.m4 file any more. A possible solution is to
manually copy the gnulib-cache.m4 into the new M4 macro directory.
In the gnulib-cache.m4 file, the macros have the following meaning:
gl_MODULESgl_AVOIDgl_SOURCE_BASEgl_M4_BASEgl_TESTS_BASEgl_LIBgl_LGPLgl_LIBTOOLgl_MACRO_PREFIXWhen you want to update to a more recent version of Gnulib, without changing the list of modules or other parameters, a simple call does it:
$ gnulib-tool --add-import
This will create, update or remove files, as needed.
Note: From time to time, changes are made in Gnulib that are not backward compatible. When updating to a more recent Gnulib, you should consult Gnulib's NEWS file to check whether the incompatible changes affect your project.
Gnulib contains some header file overrides. This means that when building on systems with deficient header files in /usr/include/, it may create files named string.h, stdlib.h, stdint.h or similar in the build directory. In the other source directories of your package you will usually pass ‘-I’ options to the compiler, so that these Gnulib substitutes are visible and take precedence over the files in /usr/include/.
These Gnulib substitute header files rely on <config.h> being already included. Furthermore <config.h> must be the first include in every compilation unit. This means that to all your source files and likely also to all your tests source files you need to add an ‘#include <config.h>’ at the top. Which source files are affected? Exactly those whose compilation includes a ‘-I’ option that refers to the Gnulib library directory.
This is annoying, but inevitable: On many systems, <config.h> is
used to set system dependent flags (such as _GNU_SOURCE on GNU systems),
and these flags have no effect after any system header file has been included.
gettextize and autopoint usersThe programs gettextize and autopoint, part of
GNU gettext, import or update the internationalization infrastructure.
Some of this infrastructure, namely ca. 20 autoconf macro files and the
config.rpath file, is also contained in Gnulib and may be imported
by gnulib-tool. The use of gettextize or autopoint
will therefore overwrite some of the files that gnulib-tool has
imported, and vice versa.
Avoiding to use gettextize (manually, as package maintainer) or
autopoint (as part of a script like autoreconf or
autogen.sh) is not the solution: These programs also import the
infrastructure in the po/ and optionally in the intl/ directory.
The copies of the conflicting files in Gnulib are more up-to-date than
the copies brought in by gettextize and autopoint. When a
new gettext release is made, the copies of the files in Gnulib will
be updated immediately.
The choice of which version of gettext to require depends on the needs of your package. For a package that wants to comply to GNU Coding Standards, the steps are:
gettextize, always use the gettextize from the
matching GNU gettext release. For the most recent Gnulib checkout, this is
the newest release found on http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gettext/. For an
older Gnulib snapshot, it is the release that was the most recent release
at the time the Gnulib snapshot was taken.
gettextize, invoke gnulib-tool and import
the gettext module. Also, copy the latest version of gnulib's
build-aux/po/Makefile.in.in to your po/ directory (this
is done for you if you use gnulib's bootstrap script).
*** error: gettext infrastructure mismatch:
using a Makefile.in.in from gettext version ...
but the autoconf macros are from gettext version ...,
it means that a new GNU gettext release was made, and its autoconf macros
were integrated into Gnulib and now mismatch the po/ infrastructure.
In this case, fetch and install the new GNU gettext release and run
gettextize followed by gnulib-tool.
On the other hand, if your package is not as concerned with compliance to the latest standards, but instead favors development on stable environments, the steps are:
gettext that you intend to
support during development (at this time, gnulib recommends going no
older than version 0.17). Run autopoint (not
gettextize) to copy infrastructure into place (newer versions
of gettext will install the older infrastructure that you requested).
gnulib-tool, and import the gettext-h module.
Regardless of which approach you used to get the infrastructure in place, the following steps must then be used to preserve that infrastructure (gnulib's bootstrap script follows these rules):
autopoint, invoke gnulib-tool
afterwards.
autoreconf after gnulib-tool, make sure to
not invoke autopoint a second time, by setting the AUTOPOINT
environment variable, like this:
$ env AUTOPOINT=true autoreconf --install
Gnulib provides some functions that emit translatable messages using GNU
gettext. The ‘gnulib’ domain at the
Translation Project collects
translations of these messages, which you should incorporate into your
own programs.
There are two basic ways to achieve this. The first, and older, method is to list all the source files you use from Gnulib in your own po/POTFILES.in file. This will cause all the relevant translatable strings to be included in your POT file. When you send this POT file to the Translation Project, translators will normally fill in the translations of the Gnulib strings from their “translation memory”, and send you back updated PO files.
However, this process is error-prone: you might forget to list some source files, or the translator might not be using a translation memory and provide a different translation than another translator, or the translation might not be kept in sync between Gnulib and your package. It is also slow and causes substantial extra work, because a human translator must be in the loop for each language and you will need to incorporate their work on request.
For these reasons, a new method was designed and is now recommended. If
you pass the --po-base=directory and --po-domain=domain
options to gnulib-tool, then gnulib-tool will create a
separate directory with its own POTFILES.in, and fetch current
translations directly from the Translation Project (using
rsync or wget, whichever is available).
The POT file in this directory will be called
domain-gnulib.pot, depending on the domain you gave to the
--po-domain option (typically the same as the package name).
This causes these translations to reside in a separate message domain,
so that they do not clash either with the translations for the main part
of your package nor with those of other packages on the system that use
possibly different versions of Gnulib.
When you use these options, the functions in Gnulib are built
in such a way that they will always use this domain regardless of the
default domain set by textdomain.
In order to use this method, you must—in each program that might use Gnulib code—add an extra line to the part of the program that initializes locale-dependent behavior. Where you would normally write something like:
setlocale (LC_ALL, "");
bindtextdomain (PACKAGE, LOCALEDIR);
textdomain (PACKAGE);
you should add an additional bindtextdomain call to inform
gettext of where the MO files for the extra message domain may be found:
bindtextdomain (PACKAGE "-gnulib", LOCALEDIR);
(This example assumes that the domain that you specified
to gnulib-tool is the same as the value of the PACKAGE
preprocessor macro.)
Since you do not change the textdomain call, the default message
domain for your program remains the same and your own use of gettext
functions will not be affected.
If a project stores its source files in a version control system (VCS), such as CVS, Subversion, or Git, one needs to decide which files to commit.
In principle, all files created by gnulib-tool, except
gnulib-cache.m4, can be treated like generated source files,
like for example a parser.c file generated from
parser.y. Alternatively, they can be considered source files
and updated manually.
Here are the three different approaches in common use. Each has its place, and you should use whichever best suits your particular project and development methods.
gnulib-tool generated files should all be
committed. In this case, you should pass the option
‘--no-vc-files’ to gnulib-tool, which avoids alteration of
VCS-related files such as .cvsignore.
Gnulib also contains files generated by make (and removed by
make clean), using information determined by
configure. For a Gnulib source file of the form
lib/foo.in.h, the corresponding lib/foo.h is such a
make-generated file. These should not be checked
into the VCS, but instead added to .cvsignore or equivalent.
gnulib-tool. The command for restoring the omitted files
depends on it:
gnulib-cache.m4, such as
autogen.sh, bootstrap, bootstrap.conf, or similar,
the restoration command is the entire gnulib-tool ... --import ...
invocation with all options and module names.
gnulib-tool's memory of the last used
options and module names, then the file gnulib-cache.m4 in the M4
macros directory must be added to the VCS, and the restoration command
is:
$ gnulib-tool --update
The ‘--update’ option operates much like the ‘--add-import’ option, but it does not offer the possibility to change the way Gnulib is used. Also it does not report in the ChangeLogs the files that it had to add because they were missing.
Gnulib includes the file build-aux/bootstrap to aid a developer in using this setup. Furthermore, in projects that use git for version control, it is possible to use a git submodule containing the precise commit of the gnulib repository, so that each developer running bootstrap will get the same version of all gnulib-provided files. The location of the submodule can be chosen to fit the package's needs; here's how to initially create the submodule in the directory .gnulib:
$ dir=.gnulib
$ git submodule add -- git://git.sv.gnu.org/gnulib.git $dir
$ git config alias.syncsub "submodule foreach git pull origin master"
Thereafter, bootstrap can run this command to update the submodule to the recorded checkout level:
git submodule update --init $dir
and a developer can use this sequence to update to a newer version of gnulib:
$ git syncsub
$ git add $dir
$ ./bootstrap
Makefile.in generated by Automake. This
increases the size and complexity of the repository, but can help
occasional contributors by not requiring them to have a full Gnulib
checkout to do a build, and all developers by ensuring that all
developers are working with the same version of Gnulib in the
repository. It also supports multiple Gnulib instances within a
project. It remains important not to commit the
make-generated files, as described above.
You can bundle the unit tests of the Gnulib modules together with your
package, through the ‘--with-tests’ option. Together with
‘--with-tests’, you also specify the directory for these tests
through the ‘--tests-base’ option. Of course, you need to add this
directory to the SUBDIRS variable in the Makefile.am of
the parent directory.
The advantage of having the unit tests bundled is that when your program has a problem on a particular platform, running the unit tests may help determine quickly if the problem is on Gnulib's side or on your package's side. Also, it helps verifying Gnulib's portability, of course.
The unit tests will be compiled and run when the user runs ‘make check’. When the user runs only ‘make’, the unit tests will not be compiled.
In the SUBDIRS variable, it is useful to put the Gnulib tests directory
after the directory containing the other tests, not before:
SUBDIRS = gnulib-lib src man tests gnulib-tests
This will ensure that on platforms where there are test failures in either directory, users will see and report the failures from the tests of your program.
Note: In packages which use more than one invocation of gnulib-tool
in the scope of the same configure.ac, you cannot use
‘--with-tests’. You will have to use a separate configure.ac
in this case.
In some cases, a module is needed by another module only on specific
platforms. But when a module is present, its autoconf checks are always
executed, and its Makefile.am additions are always enabled. So
it can happen that some autoconf checks are executed and some source files
are compiled, although no other module needs them on this particular
platform, just in case some other module would need them.
The option ‘--conditional-dependencies’ enables an optimization of
configure checks and Makefile.am snippets that avoids this. With
this option, whether a module is considered “present” is no longer decided
when gnulib-tool is invoked, but later, when configure is run.
This applies to modules that were added as dependencies while
gnulib-tool was run; modules that were passed on the command line
explicitly are always “present”.
For example, the timegm module needs, on platforms
where the system's timegm function is missing or buggy, a replacement
that is based on a function mktime_internal. The module
mktime-internal that provides this function provides it on all
platforms. So, by default, the file mktime-internal.c will be
compiled on all platforms, even on glibc and BSD systems which have a
working timegm function. When the option
‘--conditional-dependencies’ is given, on the other hand, and if
mktime-internal was not explicitly required on the command line,
the file mktime-internal.c will only be compiled on the platforms
where the timegm needs them.
Conditional dependencies are specified in the module description by putting
the condition on the same line as the dependent module, enclosed in brackets.
The condition is a boolean shell expression that can assume that the
configure.ac snippet from the module description has already been
executed. In the example above, the dependency from timegm to
mktime-internal is written like this:
Depends-on:
...
mktime-internal [test $HAVE_TIMEGM = 0 || test $REPLACE_TIMEGM = 1]
...
Note: The option ‘--conditional-dependencies’ cannot be used together
with the option ‘--with-tests’. It also cannot be used when a package
uses gnulib-tool for several subdirectories, with different values
of ‘--source-base’, in the scope of a single configure.ac file.
This chapter explains how to write modules of your own, either to extend Gnulib for your own package (see Extending Gnulib), or for inclusion in gnulib proper.
The guidelines in this chapter do not necessarily need to be followed for
using gnulib-tool. They merely represent a set of good practices.
Following them will result in a good structure of your modules and in
consistency with gnulib.
Every API (C functions or variables) provided should be declared in a header file (.h file) and implemented in one or more implementation files (.c files). The separation has the effect that users of your module need to read only the contents of the .h file and the module description in order to understand what the module is about and how to use it—not the entire implementation. Furthermore, users of your module don't need to repeat the declarations of the functions in their code, and are likely to receive notification through compiler errors if you make incompatible changes to the API (like, adding a parameter or changing the return type of a function).
The .h file should declare the C functions and variables that the module provides.
The .h file should be stand-alone. That is, it does not require other .h files to be included before. Rather, it includes all necessary .h files by itself.
It is a tradition to use CPP tricks to avoid parsing the same header file more than once, which might cause warnings. The trick is to wrap the content of the header file (say, foo.h) in a block, as in:
#ifndef FOO_H
# define FOO_H
...
body of header file goes here
...
#endif /* FOO_H */
Whether to use FOO_H or _FOO_H is a matter of taste and
style. The C89 and C99 standards reserve all identifiers that begin with an
underscore and either an uppercase letter or another underscore, for
any use. Thus, in theory, an application might not safely assume that
_FOO_H has not already been defined by a library. On the other
hand, using FOO_H will likely lead the higher risk of
collisions with other symbols (e.g., KEY_H, XK_H, BPF_H,
which are CPP macro constants, or COFF_LONG_H, which is a CPP
macro function). Your preference may depend on whether you consider
the header file under discussion as part of the application (which has
its own namespace for CPP symbols) or a supporting library (that
shouldn't interfere with the application's CPP symbol namespace).
Adapting C header files for use in C++ applications can use another CPP trick, as in:
# ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C"
{
# endif
...
body of header file goes here
...
# ifdef __cplusplus
}
# endif
The idea here is that __cplusplus is defined only by C++
implementations, which will wrap the header file in an ‘extern "C"’
block. Again, whether to use this trick is a matter of taste and
style. While the above can be seen as harmless, it could be argued
that the header file is written in C, and any C++ application using it
should explicitly use the ‘extern "C"’ block itself. Your
preference might depend on whether you consider the API exported by
your header file as something available for C programs only, or for C
and C++ programs alike.
Note that putting a #include in an extern "C" { ... }
block yields a syntax error in C++ mode on some platforms (e.g., glibc
systems with g++ v3.3 to v4.2, AIX, OSF/1, IRIX). For this reason, it
is recommended to place the #include before the extern
"C" block.
The .c file or files implement the functions and variables declared in the .h file.
Every implementation file must start with ‘#include <config.h>’.
This is necessary for activating the preprocessor macros that are defined
on behalf of the Autoconf macros. Some of these preprocessor macros,
such as _GNU_SOURCE, would have no effect if defined after a system
header file has already been included.
Then comes the ‘#include "..."’ specifying the header file that is being implemented. Putting this right after ‘#include <config.h>’ has the effect that it verifies that the header file is self-contained.
Then come the system and application headers. It is customary to put all the system headers before all application headers, so as to minimize the risk that a preprocessor macro defined in an application header confuses the system headers on some platforms.
In summary:
The specification of a function should answer at least the following questions:
Where to put the specification describing exported functions? Three practices are used in gnulib:
In any case, the specification should appear in just one place, unless you can ensure that the multiple copies will always remain identical.
The advantage of putting it in the header file is that the user only has to read the include file normally never needs to peek into the implementation file(s).
The advantage of putting it in the implementation file is that when reviewing or changing the implementation, you have both elements side by side.
The advantage of texinfo formatted documentation is that it is easily published in HTML or Info format.
Currently (as of 2010), half of gnulib uses the first practice, nearly half of gnulib uses the second practice, and a small minority uses the texinfo practice.
For the module description, you can start from an existing module's description, or from a blank one: module/TEMPLATE for a normal module, or module/TEMPLATE-TESTS for a unit test module. Some more fields are possible but rarely used. Use module/TEMPLATE-EXTENDED if you want to use one of them.
Module descriptions have the following fields. Absent fields are equivalent to fields with empty contents.
--with-obsolete is given, omit it when it used as a dependency. It is
good practice to also notify the user about an obsolete module. This is done
by putting into the ‘Notice’ section (see below) text like
‘This module is obsolete.’
Makefile.am the module is applied. By default,
a normal module is applied to source_base/Makefile.am
(normally lib/Makefile.am), whereas a module ending in -tests
is applied to tests_base/Makefile.am (normally
tests/Makefile.am). If this field is ‘all’, it is applied to
both Makefile.ams. This is useful for modules which provide
Makefile.am macros rather than compiled source code.
gnulib-tool copies these files into the package that
uses the module.
This list is typically ordered by importance: First comes the header file, then the implementation files, then other files.
It is possible to have the same file mentioned in multiple modules. That is,
if the maintainers of that module agree on the purpose and future of said
file.
gnulib-tool includes each
required module automatically, unless it is specified with option
--avoid or it is marked as obsolete and the option
--with-obsolete is not given.
A test modules foo-tests implicitly depends on the corresponding non-test
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enclosed in brackets, after the name of the required module. The condition
is a shell expression that is run after the module's configure.ac
statements. For example:
strtoull [test $ac_cv_func_strtoumax = no]
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recommend moving them to a .m4 file of their own.
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implementation file lib/foo.c compiled unconditionally is to write
lib_SOURCES += foo.c
"foo.h"
$(POW_LIBM)
$(LTLIBICONV) when linking with libtool, $(LIBICONV) otherwise
ChangeLog file.
Please put at least one person here. We don't like unmaintained modules.
For a module foo, an Autoconf macro file m4/foo.m4 is typically
created when the Autoconf macro invocations for the module are longer than
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The name of the main entry point into this Autoconf macro file is typically
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into Gnulib, please use a prefix specific to your package: gt_ for
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For modules that define a function foo, the entry point is called
gl_FUNC_FOO instead of gl_FOO. For modules that provide a
header file with multiple functions, say foo.h, the entry point is
called gl_FOO_H or gl_HEADER_FOO_H. This convention is useful
because sometimes a header and a function name coincide (for example,
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lib/foo.c, all you have to review
is the Depends-on section of the module description and the
gl_PREREQ_FOO macro in the Autoconf macro file.
A unit test that is a simple C program usually has a module description as simple as this:
Files:
tests/test-foo.c
tests/macros.h
Depends-on:
configure.ac:
Makefile.am:
TESTS += test-foo
check_PROGRAMS += test-foo
The test program tests/test-foo.c often has the following structure:
ASSERT macro.
The body of the test, then, contains many ASSERT invocations. When
a test fails, the ASSERT macro prints the line number of the failing
statement, thus giving you, the developer, an idea of which part of the test
failed, even when you don't have access to the machine where the test failed
and the reporting user cannot run a debugger.
Sometimes it is convenient to write part of the test as a shell script. (For example, in areas related to process control or interprocess communication, or when different locales should be tried.) In these cases, the typical module description is like this:
Files:
tests/test-foo.sh
tests/test-foo.c
tests/macros.h
Depends-on:
configure.ac:
Makefile.am:
TESTS += test-foo.sh
TESTS_ENVIRONMENT += FOO_BAR='@FOO_BAR@'
check_PROGRAMS += test-foo
Here, the TESTS_ENVIRONMENT variable can be used to pass values
determined by configure or by the Makefile to the shell
script, as environment variables. The values of EXEEXT and of
srcdir, from Autoconf and Automake, are already provided as
environment variables, through an initial value of TESTS_ENVIRONMENT
that gnulib-tool puts in place.
Regardless of the specific form of the unit test, the following guidelines should be respected:
ASSERT macro already does so.
fputs ("Skipping test: multithreading not enabled\n", stderr);
return 77;
Such a message helps detecting bugs in the autoconf macros: A simple message ‘SKIP: test-foo’ does not sufficiently catch the attention of the user.
Incompatible changes to Gnulib modules should be mentioned in Gnulib's NEWS file. Incompatible changes here mean that existing source code may not compile or work any more.
We don't mean changes in the binary interface (ABI), since
Gnulib modules are intended to be suitable for widespread use. Most problems with Gnulib can and should be fixed in a generic way, so that all of Gnulib's users can benefit from the change. But occasionally a problem arises that is difficult or undesirable to fix generically, or a project that uses Gnulib may need to work around an issue before the Gnulib maintainers commit a final fix. Maintainers may also want to add their own pools of modules to projects as Gnulib “staging areas.”
The obvious way to make local changes to Gnulib modules is to use gnulib-tool to check out pristine modules, then to modify the results in-place. This works well enough for short-lived experiments. It is harder to keep modified versions of Gnulib modules for a long time, even though Git (or another distributed version control systems) can help out a lot with this during the development process.
Git, however, doesn't address the distribution issue. When a package
“foobar” needs a modified version of, say, stdint.in.h, it
either has to put a comment into foobar/autogen.sh saying
“Attention! This doesn't work with a pristine Gnulib, you need this
and that patch after checking out Gnulib,” or it has to use the
‘--avoid=stdint’ option and provide the modified stdint
module in a different directory.
The --local-dir option to gnulib-tool solves this problem. It allows the package to override or augment Gnulib. This means:
In a release tarball, you can distribute the contents of this --local-dir directory that will be combinable with newer versions of Gnulib, barring incompatible changes to Gnulib.
If the ‘--local-dir=directory’ option is specified, then gnulib-tool looks in directory whenever it reads a file from the Gnulib directory. Suppose gnulib-tool is looking for file. Then:
Please make wise use of this option. It also allows you to easily hold back modifications you make to Gnulib macros in cases it may be better to share them.
The gnulib API does not have a standard error code for the out of memory error condition. Instead of adding a non-standard error code, gnulib has chosen to adopt a different strategy. Out of memory handling happens in rare situations, but performing the out of memory error handling after almost all API function invocations pollute your source code and might make it harder to spot more serious problems. The strategy chosen improves code readability and robustness.
For most applications, aborting the application with an error message when the out of memory situation occurs is the best that can be wished for. This is how the library behaves by default (using the ‘xalloc-die’ module).
However, we realize that some applications may not want to abort
execution in any situation. Gnulib supports a hook to let the
application regain control and perform its own cleanups when an out of
memory situation has occurred. The application can define a function
(having a void prototype, i.e., no return value and no
parameters) and set the library variable
xalloc_die to that function. The variable should be
declared as follows.
extern void (*xalloc_die) (void);
Gnulib will invoke this function if an out of memory error occurs. Note that the function should not return. Of course, care must be taken to not allocate more memory, as that will likely also fail.
Modules can be marked obsolete. This means that the problems they fix
don't occur any more on the platforms that are reasonable porting targets
now. gnulib-tool warns when obsolete modules are mentioned on the
command line, and by default ignores dependencies from modules to obsolete
modules. When you pass the option --with-obsolete to
gnulib-tool, dependencies to obsolete modules will be included,
however, unless blocked through an --avoid option. This option
is useful if your package should be portable even to very old platforms.
In order to mark a module obsolete, you need to add this to the module description:
Status:
obsolete
Notice:
This module is obsolete.
Test modules can be marked with some special status attributes. When a
test module has such an attribute, gnulib-tool --import will not
include it by default.
The supported status attributes are:
c++-testlongrunning-testprivileged-testunportable-testgnulib-tool --import --with-tests will not include tests marked with
these attributes by default. When gnulib-tool is invoked with one
of the options --with-c++-tests, --with-longrunning-tests,
--with-privileged-tests, --with-unportable-tests, it
will include tests despite the corresponding special status attribute.
When gnulib-tool receives the option --with-all-tests,
it will include all tests regardless of their status attributes.
gnulib-tool --create-testdir --with-tests and
gnulib-tool --create-megatestdir --with-tests by default include all
tests of modules specified on the command line, regardless of their status
attributes. Tests of modules occurring as dependencies are not included
by default if they have one of these status attributes. The options
--with-c++-tests, --with-longrunning-tests,
--with-privileged-tests, --with-unportable-tests are
recognized here as well. Additionally, gnulib-tool also
understands the options --without-c++-tests,
--without-longrunning-tests, --without-privileged-tests,
--without-unportable-tests.
In order to mark a module with a status attribute, you need to add it to the module description, like this:
Status:
longrunning-test
If only a part of a test deserves a particular status attribute, you
can split the module into a primary and a secondary test module,
say foo-tests and foo-extra-tests. Then add a dependency
from foo-tests to foo-extra-tests, and mark the
foo-extra-tests with the particular status attribute.
The function definitions provided by Gnulib (.c code) are meant
to be compiled by a C compiler. The header files (.h files),
on the other hand, can be used in either C or C++.
By default, when used in a C++ compilation unit, the .h files
declare the same symbols and overrides as in C mode, except that functions
defined by Gnulib or by the system are declared as ‘extern "C"’.
It is also possible to indicate to Gnulib to provide many of its symbols
in a dedicated C++ namespace. If you define the macro
GNULIB_NAMESPACE to an identifier, many functions will be defined
in the namespace specified by the identifier instead of the global
namespace. For example, after you have defined
#define GNULIB_NAMESPACE gnulib
at the beginning of a compilation unit, Gnulib's <fcntl.h> header
file will make available the open function as gnulib::open.
The symbol open will still refer to the system's open function,
with its platform specific bugs and limitations.
The symbols provided in the Gnulib namespace are those for which the
corresponding header file contains a _GL_CXXALIAS_RPL or
_GL_CXXALIAS_SYS macro invocation.
The benefits of this namespace mode are:
open has to be overridden, Gnulib normally does
#define open rpl_open. If your package has a class with a member
open, for example a class foo with a method foo::open,
then if you define this member in a compilation unit that includes
<fcntl.h> and use it in a compilation unit that does not include
<fcntl.h>, or vice versa, you will get a link error. Worse: You
will not notice this problem on the platform where the system's open
function works fine. This problem goes away in namespace mode.
gnulib::open in your code, and you forgot to request the module
‘open’ from Gnulib, you will get a compilation error (regardless of
the platform).
The drawback of this namespace mode is that the system provided symbols in
the global namespace are still present, even when they contain bugs that
Gnulib fixes. For example, if you call open (...) in your code,
it will invoke the possibly buggy system function, even if you have
requested the module ‘open’ from gnulib-tool.
You can turn on the namespace mode in some compilation units and keep it turned off in others. This can be useful if your package consists of an application layer that does not need to invoke POSIX functions and an operating system interface layer that contains all the OS function calls. In such a situation, you will want to turn on the namespace mode for the application layer—to avoid many preprocessor macro definitions—and turn it off for the OS interface layer—to avoid the drawback of the namespace mode, mentioned above.
The module ‘check-version’ can be useful when your gnulib
application is a system library. You will typically wrap the call to
the check_version function through a library API, your library
header file may contain:
#define STRINGPREP_VERSION "0.5.18"
...
extern const char *stringprep_check_version (const char *req_version);
To avoid ELF symbol collisions with other libraries that use the ‘check-version’ module, add to config.h through a AC_DEFINE something like:
AC_DEFINE(check_version, stringprep_check_version,
[Rename check_version.])
The stringprep_check_version function will thus be implemented
by the check_version module.
There are two uses of the interface. The first is a way to provide for applications to find out the version number of the library it uses. The application may contain diagnostic code such as:
printf ("Stringprep version: header %s library %s",
STRINGPREP_VERSION,
stringprep_check_version (NULL));
Separating the library and header file version can be useful when searching for version mismatch related problems.
The second uses is as a rudimentary test of proper library version, by making sure the application get a library version that is the same, or newer, than the header file used when building the application. This doesn't catch all problems, libraries may change backwards incompatibly in later versions, but enable applications to require a certain minimum version before it may proceed.
Typical uses look like:
/* Check version of libgcrypt. */
if (!gcry_check_version (GCRYPT_VERSION))
die ("version mismatch\n");
There are several issues when building applications that should work under Windows. The most problematic part is for applications that use sockets.
Hopefully, we can add helpful notes to this section that will help you port your application to Windows using gnulib.
This was written for the getaddrinfo module, but may be applicable to other functions too.
The getaddrinfo function exists in ws2tcpip.h and -lws2_32 on Windows
XP. The function declaration is present if WINVER >= 0x0501.
Windows 2000 does not have getaddrinfo in its WS2_32.DLL.
Thus, if you want to assume Windows XP or later, you can add AC_DEFINE(WINVER, 0x0501) to avoid compiling the (partial) getaddrinfo implementation.
If you want to support Windows 2000, don't do anything. The replacement function will open WS2_32.DLL during run-time to see if there is a getaddrinfo function available, and use it when available.
If you want it to be possible to cross-compile your program to MinGW and you use Libtool, you need to put:
AC_LIBTOOL_WIN32_DLL
in your configure.ac. This sets the correct names for the
OBJDUMP, DLLTOOL, and AS tools for the build.
If you are building a library, you will also need to pass
-no-undefined to make sure Libtool produces a DLL for your
library. From a Makefile.am:
libgsasl_la_LDFLAGS += -no-undefined
Gnulib provides copies of the GNU GPL, GNU LGPL, and GNU FDL licenses
in Texinfo form. (The master location is
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/). These Texinfo documents do not
have any node names and structures built into them; for your manual,
you should @include them in an appropriate @node.
The conventional name for the GPL node is ‘Copying’ and for the FDL ‘GNU Free Documentation License’. The LGPL doesn't seem to have a conventional node name.
Of course the license texts themselves should not be changed at all.
To simplify testing on a wide set of platforms, gnulib is built on many platforms every day and the results are uploaded to:
http://autobuild.josefsson.org/gnulib/
If you wish to help the gnulib development effort with build logs for your favorite platform, you may perform these steps:
On a machine with recent automake, autoconf, m4 installed and with a gnulib git or cvs checkout (typically a Linux machine), use
gnulib-tool --create-megatestdir --with-tests --dir=...
Note: The created directory uses ca. 512 MB on disk.
Transfer this directory to a build machine (HP-UX, Cygwin, or whatever). Often it is easier to transfer one file, and this can be achieved by running, inside the directory the following commands:
./configure
make dist
And then transferring the dummy-0.tar.gz file.
On the build machine, run ./do-autobuild (or "nohup ./do-autobuild"). It creates a directory logs/ with a log file for each module.
Submit each log file to Simon's site, either through a
mail `echo gnulib__at__autobuild.josefsson.org | sed -e s/__at__/@/`
or through netcat
autobuild-submit logs/*
This section shows a radically different way to use Gnulib.
You can extract the ISO C / POSIX substitutes part of gnulib by running the command
gnulib-tool --create-testdir --source-base=lib \
--dir=/tmp/posixlib `posix-modules`
The command ‘posix-modules’ is found in the same directory as
gnulib-tool.
The resulting directory can be built on a particular platform,
independently of the program being ported. Then you can configure and
build any program, by setting CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS at
configure time accordingly: set CPPFLAGS="-I.../posixlib/lib", plus
any essential type definitions and flags that you find in
.../posixlib/config.h, and set
LDFLAGS=".../posixlib/lib/libgnu.a".
This way of using Gnulib is useful when you don't want to modify the program's
source code, or when the program uses a mix between C and C++ sources
(requiring separate builds of the posixlib for the C compiler and
for the C++ compiler).
This chapter describes which header files specified by ISO C or POSIX are substituted by Gnulib, which portability pitfalls are fixed by Gnulib, and which (known) portability problems are not worked around by Gnulib.
The notation “Gnulib module: —” means that Gnulib does not provide a
module providing a substitute for the header file. When the list
“Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib” is empty, such a module is
not needed: No portability problems are known. Otherwise, it indicates
that such a module would be useful but is not available: No one so far
found this header file important enough to contribute a substitute for it.
If you need this particular header file, you may write to
<bug-gnulib at gnu dot org>.
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/aio.h.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/arpa_inet.h.html
Gnulib module: arpa_inet
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/assert.h.html
Gnulib module: assert-h
See also the Gnulib module assert.
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
static_assert, and the C11
_Static_assert, are not supported by many platforms.
For example, GCC versions before 4.6.0 do not support _Static_assert,
and G++ versions through at least 4.6.0 do not support static_assert.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
_Static_assert and C++11 static_assert
are keywords that can be used without including <assert.h>.
The Gnulib substitutes are macros that require including <assert.h>.
static_assert and _Static_assert can also
be used within a struct or union specifier, in place of
an ordinary declaration of a member of the struct or union. The
Gnulib substitute can be used only as an ordinary declaration.
assert can be applied to any scalar expression.
In C89, the argument to assert is of type int.
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/complex.h.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/cpio.h.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/ctype.h.html
Gnulib module: ctype
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/dirent.h.html
Gnulib module: dirent
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
ino_t is missing on some platforms:
glibc 2.8 and others.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/dlfcn.h.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/errno.h.html
Gnulib module: errno
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
EOVERFLOW, ENOLINK, EMULTIHOP are not defined
on some platforms:
OpenBSD 4.0, OSF/1 5.1, mingw, MSVC 9.
ECANCELED is not defined on some platforms:
OpenBSD 4.0, Cygwin, mingw, MSVC 9.
ENOMSG, EIDRM, EPROTO, EBADMSG,
ENOTSUP are not defined on some platforms:
OpenBSD 4.0, mingw, MSVC 9.
ESTALE is not defined on some platforms:
mingw, MSVC 9, Interix 3.5.
EDQUOT is not defined on some platforms:
NonStop Kernel, mingw, MSVC 9.
ENETRESET, ECONNABORTED are not defined on some
platforms:
Minix 3.1.8, mingw, MSVC 9.
EWOULDBLOCK, ETXTBSY, ELOOP, ENOTSOCK,
EDESTADDRREQ, EMSGSIZE, EPROTOTYPE, ENOPROTOOPT,
EPROTONOSUPPORT, EOPNOTSUPP, EAFNOSUPPORT,
EADDRINUSE, EADDRNOTAVAIL, ENETDOWN, ENETUNREACH,
ECONNRESET, ENOBUFS, EISCONN, ENOTCONN,
ETIMEDOUT, ECONNREFUSED, EHOSTUNREACH, EALREADY,
EINPROGRESS are not defined on some platforms:
mingw, MSVC 9.
EOWNERDEAD, ENOTRECOVERABLE are not defined on
some platforms:
glibc/Linux 2.3.6, glibc/Hurd 2.15, glibc/kFreeBSD 2.15,
Mac OS X 10.5, FreeBSD 6.0, NetBSD 5.0, OpenBSD 3.8, Minix 3.1.8, AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Cygwin, mingw without pthreads-win32, MSVC 9, Interix 3.5, BeOS.
EILSEQ is not defined on some platforms:
LynxOS 178 2.2.2.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/fcntl.h.html
Gnulib module: fcntl-h
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
pid_t is not defined on some platforms:
MSVC 9.
mode_t is not defined on some platforms:
MSVC 9.
int on some
platforms:
Solaris 11 2011-11.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/fenv.h.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/float.h.html
Gnulib module: float
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
int to long double in incorrect on some
platforms:
glibc 2.7 on Linux/SPARC64.
LDBL_* macros are incorrect on some platforms:
On OpenBSD 4.0, MirBSD 10, and BeOS, they are the same as the values of the
DBL_* macros, although ‘long double’ is a larger type than
‘double’.
On FreeBSD/x86 6.4, they represent the incorrect 53-bit precision assumptions
in the compiler, not the real 64-bit precision at runtime.
On Linux/PowerPC with GCC 4.4, on AIX 7.1 with GCC 4.2, and on IRIX 6.5,
they don't reflect the “double double” representation of long double
correctly.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
FLT_ROUNDS is a constant expression and does not represent
the current rounding mode on some platforms:
glibc 2.11, HP-UX 11, mingw.
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/fmtmsg.h.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/fnmatch.h.html
Gnulib module: fnmatch-posix or fnmatch-gnu
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/ftw.h.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/glob.h.html
Gnulib module: glob
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/grp.h.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/iconv.h.html
Gnulib module: iconv
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/inttypes.h.html
Gnulib module: inttypes
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
imaxabs and imaxdiv are missing on some
platforms:
NetBSD 3.0, OpenBSD 3.8, AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, BeOS.
strtoimax and strtoumax are missing on some
platforms:
OpenBSD 3.8, AIX 4.3.2, AIX 5.1 (missing only strtoumax), OSF/1 5.1.
__STDC_FORMAT_MACROS to make visible the declarations of format
macros such as PRIdMAX.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/iso646.h.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/langinfo.h.html
Gnulib module: langinfo
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
CODESET is not defined on some platforms:
glibc 2.0.6, OpenBSD 3.8.
ERA, ERA_D_FMT, ERA_D_T_FMT,
ERA_T_FMT, ALT_DIGITS are not defined on some platforms:
OpenBSD 3.8.
T_FMT_AMPM, YESEXPR, NOEXPR are not
defined on some platforms:
IRIX 5.3.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/libgen.h.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/limits.h.html
Gnulib module: gethostname
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
HOST_NAME_MAX macro is not defined on some platforms:
Mac OS X 10.5, FreeBSD 6.0, NetBSD 5.0, OpenBSD 3.8, AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11,
IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 11 2011-11, Cygwin 1.5.x, mingw, MSVC 9, Interix 3.5, BeOS.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
LLONG_MIN, LLONG_MAX, ULLONG_MAX are not
defined on some platforms:
AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1 with gcc.
WORD_BIT, LONG_BIT are not defined on some platforms:
glibc 2.11 without -D_GNU_SOURCE, Cygwin, mingw, MSVC 9.
SSIZE_MAX is not defined on some platforms:
MSVC 9.
For PATH_MAX, Gnulib provides a module pathmax with a header
file "pathmax.h". It defines PATH_MAX to a constant on
platforms with a file name length limit.
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/locale.h.html
Gnulib module: locale
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
locale_t type is not defined on some platforms:
glibc 2.11, Mac OS X 10.5.
struct lconv type does not contain any members on some platforms:
Android.
struct lconv type does not contain the members
int_p_cs_precedes, int_p_sign_posn, int_p_sep_by_space,
int_n_cs_precedes, int_n_sign_posn, int_n_sep_by_space
on some platforms:
glibc, OpenBSD 4.9, HP-UX 11, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 11 2011-11, Cygwin 1.5.x, mingw, MSVC 9.
NULL macro that cannot be used in arbitrary
expressions:
NetBSD 5.0
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/math.h.html
Gnulib module: math
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
int to long double in incorrect on some
platforms:
glibc 2.7 on Linux/SPARC64.
NAN is not defined on some platforms:
OpenBSD 4.0, AIX 5.1, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1.
NAN is not exposed outside of C99 compilation on some
platforms:
glibc.
NAN and HUGE_VAL expand to a function address
rather than a floating point constant on some platforms:
Solaris 10.
HUGE_VALF and HUGE_VALL are not defined on some
platforms:
glibc/HPPA, glibc/SPARC, AIX 5.1, IRIX 6.5, Solaris 9, MSVC 9.
FP_ILOGB0 and FP_ILOGBNAN are not defined on some
platforms:
NetBSD 5.1, AIX 5.1, IRIX 6.5, Solaris 9, MSVC 9.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
NAN is not a compile time constant with some compilers:
OSF/1 with Compaq (ex-DEC) C 6.4.
math_errhandling is not defined on some platforms:
glibc 2.11, OpenBSD 4.9, NetBSD 5.1, UP-UX 11, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Cygwin 1.7.9, mingw, MSVC 9.
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/monetary.h.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/mqueue.h.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/ndbm.h.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/net_if.h.html
Gnulib module: net_if
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/netdb.h.html
Gnulib module: netdb
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
socklen_t on some platforms:
HP-UX 10.20, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 4.0, Interix 3.5, BeOS.
AI_ALL, AI_V4MAPPED,
AI_ADDRCONFIG on some platforms:
NetBSD 5.0.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/netinet_in.h.html
Gnulib module: netinet_in
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
<sys/types.h> to be included first):
OpenBSD 4.6.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/netinet_tcp.h.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/nl_types.h.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/poll.h.html
Gnulib module: poll-h
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
nfds_t on some platforms:
IRIX 5.3.
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/pthread.h.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/pwd.h.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/regex.h.html
Gnulib module: regex
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
<sys/types.h> to be included first.
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/sched.h.html
Gnulib module: sched
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
pid_t on some platforms:
glibc 2.11, Mac OS X 10.5.
struct sched_param is not defined on some platforms:
Haiku.
SCHED_FIFO, SCHED_RR, SCHED_OTHER are not defined on
some platforms:
Haiku.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/search.h.html
Gnulib module: search
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/semaphore.h.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/setjmp.h.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/signal.h.html
Gnulib module: signal-h
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
volatile sig_atomic_t is rejected by older compilers on some
platforms:
AIX.
sigset_t is missing on some platforms:
MSVC 9.
sigset_t is only declared in <sys/types.h> on some platforms:
mingw.
struct sigaction and siginfo_t are missing on some
platforms:
mingw, MSVC 9.
struct sigaction lacks the sa_sigaction member on some
platforms:
Irix 5.3, Interix 3.5.
pid_t is not defined on some platforms:
MSVC 9.
SIGPIPE is not defined on some platforms:
mingw, MSVC 9.
SA_NODEFER is not defined on some platforms:
Interix 3.5.
SA_RESETHAND and SA_RESTART are not defined
on some platforms:
NonStop.
sighandler_t (a GNU extension) is not defined on most non-glibc
platforms:
Mac OS X 10.5, FreeBSD 6.0, NetBSD 5.0, OpenBSD 3.8, AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11,
IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 11 2011-11, Cygwin, mingw, MSVC 9, Interix 3.5, BeOS.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
SIGRTMIN and SIGRTMAX expand to an expression of type
long instead of int on some platforms:
OSF/1 5.1.
SIGBUS is set to the same value as SIGSEGV,
rather than being a distinct signal, on some platforms:
Haiku.
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/spawn.h.html
Gnulib module: spawn
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
POSIX specification:
Not in POSIX yet, but we expect it will be.
ISO C11 (latest free draft
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1570.pdf)
sections 6.5.3.4, 6.7.5, 7.15.
C++11 (latest free draft
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2011/n3242.pdf)
section 18.10.
Gnulib module: stdalign
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
<stdalign.h> does not define alignof/_Alignof.
alignof and _Alignof macros return too large values for
the types double and long long in GCC 4.7.0.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
_Alignas and alignas are not always supported;
on platforms lacking support, the
macro __alignas_is_defined is not defined.
Supported compilers include GCC, IBM C, Sun C 5.11 and later,
and MSVC 7.0 and later.
alignas/_Alignas of auto variables (i.e.,
variables on the stack). They diagnose and ignore the alignment: Sun
C 5.11.
_Alignas/alignas
that are greater than 8: mingw.
_Alignas/alignas
to be a single integer constant, not an expression: MSVC 7.0 through
at least 10.0.
_Alignas/alignas. This compiler bug causes the Gnulib
module stdalign-tests to fail. The Sun Studio Developer Bug
Report Review Team assigned the internal review ID 2125432 (dated
2011-11-01) to this issue.
<stdalign.h> must be #included before _Alignas and
_Alignof can be used.
_Alignas and _Alignof are reserved words;
they might be macros.
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/stdarg.h.html
Gnulib module: stdarg
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
va_copy to work.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/stdbool.h.html
Gnulib module: stdbool
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
true incorrectly on some platforms:
OpenBSD 4.7 with gcc 2.95.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
<stdbool.h> must be #included before ‘_Bool’ can be used.
_Bool is a typedef; it might be a macro.
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/stddef.h.html
Gnulib module: stddef
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
wchar_t.
NULL macro that cannot be used in arbitrary
expressions:
NetBSD 5.0
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
offsetof macro that cannot be used in
arbitrary expressions:
Solaris 11 2011-11
This problem can be worked around by parenthesizing the
offsetof expression in the unlikely case you use it with
sizeof or ‘[]’.
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/stdint.h.html
Gnulib module: stdint
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
SIG_ATOMIC_MIN and SIG_ATOMIC_MAX are incorrect
on some platforms:
FreeBSD 6.2 / ia64.
WINT_MAX is incorrect on some platforms:
mingw.
INT8_MAX, UINT8_MAX etc. are not usable in
preprocessor expressions on some platforms:
HP-UX 11.23.
WCHAR_MIN and WCHAR_MAX are not defined in
<stdint.h> (only in <wchar.h>) on some platforms:
Dragonfly, BSDI.
__STDC_CONSTANT_MACROS to make visible the definitions of
constant macros such as INTMAX_C, and one must define
__STDC_LIMIT_MACROS to make visible the definitions of limit
macros such as INTMAX_MAX.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
{uint,int}_fast{8,16,32,64}_t may not correspond to the fastest
types available on the system.
Other <stdint.h> substitutes may define these types differently,
so public header files should avoid these types.
long int.
For example, as of 2007, Sun C mishandles #if LLONG_MIN < 0 on
a platform with 32-bit long int and 64-bit long long int.
Some older preprocessors mishandle constants ending in LL.
To work around these problems, compute the value of expressions like
LONG_MAX < LLONG_MAX at configure-time rather than at
#if-time.
The stdint.h module uses #include_next. If you wish to install
the generated stdint.h file under another name, typically in order to
be able to use some of the types defined by stdint.h in your public
header file, you could use the following Makefile.am-snippet:
BUILT_SOURCES += idn-int.h
DISTCLEANFILES += idn-int.h
nodist_include_HEADERS += idn-int.h
idn-int.h:
if test -n "$(STDINT_H)"; then \
sed -e s/include_next/include/ gl/stdint.h > idn-int.h; \
else \
echo '#include <stdint.h>' > idn-int.h; \
fi
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/stdio.h.html
Gnulib module: stdio
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
off_t is missing on some platforms:
glibc 2.8, eglibc 2.11.2 and others.
ssize_t is missing on some platforms:
glibc 2.8, Mac OS X 10.5, Solaris 10, MSVC 9, and others.
va_list is missing on some platforms:
glibc 2.8, OpenBSD 4.0, Solaris 11 2011-11, and others.
NULL macro that cannot be used in arbitrary
expressions:
NetBSD 5.0
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/stdlib.h.html
Gnulib module: stdlib, system-posix
Portability problems fixed by the Gnulib module stdlib:
EXIT_SUCCESS and EXIT_FAILURE are not defined on
some platforms.
EXIT_FAILURE is incorrectly defined on Tandem/NSK.
NULL macro that cannot be used in arbitrary
expressions:
NetBSD 5.0
Portability problems fixed by the Gnulib module system-posix:
WIFSIGNALED, WIFEXITED, WIFSTOPPED,
WTERMSIG, WEXITSTATUS, WNOHANG, WUNTRACED,
WSTOPSIG are not defined in this header file (only in
<sys/wait.h>) on some platforms:
MirBSD 10.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
WEXITSTATUS require an lvalue
argument on some platforms.
Mac OS X 10.5.
POSIX specification:
Not in POSIX yet, but we expect it will be.
ISO C11 (latest free draft
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1570.pdf)
sections 7.23.
Gnulib module: stdnoreturn
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
<stdnoreturn.h> should be #included before ‘_Noreturn’ is used.
_Noreturn is a reserved word;
it might be a macro.
noreturn expands to the empty token sequence, to avoid
problems with standard headers that use __declspec (noreturn)
directly. Although the resulting code operates correctly, the
compiler is not informed whether noreturn functions do not
return, so it may generate incorrect warnings at compile-time, or code
that is slightly less optimized. This problem does not occur with
-Werror=old-style-declaration
requires _Noreturn or noreturn before the returned type
in a declaration, and therefore rejects valid but unusually-worded
declarations such as void _Noreturn foo (void);.
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/string.h.html
Gnulib module: string
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
NULL macro that cannot be used in arbitrary
expressions:
NetBSD 5.0
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/strings.h.html
Gnulib module: strings
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/stropts.h.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/sys_ipc.h.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/sys_mman.h.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/sys_msg.h.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/sys_resource.h.html
Gnulib module: sys_resource
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/sys_select.h.html
Gnulib module: sys_select
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
<sys/types.h> to be included first.
struct timeval on some platforms:
OSF/1 4.0.
<string.h>
before FD_ZERO can be used—on some platforms:
AIX 7.1, Solaris 11 2011-11.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/sys_sem.h.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/sys_shm.h.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/sys_socket.h.html
Gnulib module: sys_socket
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
<sys/types.h> to be included first.
socklen_t on some platforms:
HP-UX 10.20, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 4.0, Interix 3.5, BeOS.
struct iovec on some platforms:
OpenBSD 4.4.
SHUT_RD, SHUT_WR,
SHUT_RDWR macros on some platforms, despite having the shutdown
functions:
emx+gcc.
struct sockaddr_storage type does not have a member ss_family
on some platforms:
AIX 7.1.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
msg_control and
msg_controllen members of struct msghdr on some
platforms. This can be detected by the absence of the
CMSG_FIRSTHDR macro:
gnulib replacement header, old BSD
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/sys_stat.h.html
Gnulib module: sys_stat
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
mode_t is not defined on some platforms:
MSVC 9.
S_IFMT or S_IFIFO, are missing on some
platforms.
S_ISBLK, S_ISCHR, S_ISDIR, S_ISFIFO,
S_ISLNK, S_ISREG, S_ISSOCK are broken on some platforms.
S_ISDOOR, that are not defined
on other platforms.
lstat and mkdir are not declared on some platforms:
mingw, MSVC 9.
UTIME_NOW and UTIME_OMIT are missing on some
platforms.
struct stat does not include st_atim,
st_mtim, or st_ctim members. Use the gnulib module
‘stat-time’ for accessors to portably get at subsecond resolution.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
S_IFBLK is missing on some platforms:
MSVC 9.
st_ino is always 0.
st_ino is an array of three ino_t values,
not a single value.
st_ino and use the Gnulib same-inode module to
compare nonzero values. For example, (a.st_ino && SAME_INODE
(a, b)) is true if the struct stat values a and
b are known to represent the same file, (a.st_ino &&
!SAME_INODE (a, b)) is true if they are known to represent different
files, and !a.st_ino is true if it is not known whether they
represent different files.
st_dev
and st_ino values, even when st_ino is nonzero:
st_dev exceeds 255, or if a local
st_ino exceeds 16777215.
st_mode and st_mtime to detect this bug, but this
approach does not work on files whose metadata are being changed by
other programs.
st_size contains bogus information for
symlinks; use the Gnulib module areadlink-with-size for a
better way to get symlink contents.
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/sys_statvfs.h.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/sys_time.h.html
Gnulib module: sys_time
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
tv_sec type that is
narrower than time_t
on some native Windows platforms:
mingw64 in 64-bit mode,
mingw64 in 32-bit mode when __MINGW_USE_VC2005_COMPAT is defined,
MSVC 9 in 64-bit mode,
MSVC 9 in 32-bit mode when _USE_32BIT_TIME_T is not defined.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
tv_sec type that is
wider than time_t:
OpenBSD 5.1 in 64-bit mode.
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/susv3xbd/sys/timeb.h.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/sys_times.h.html
Gnulib module: sys_times
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/sys_types.h.html
Gnulib module: sys_types
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
pid_t is not defined on some platforms:
MSVC 9.
size_t is not defined in this file on some platforms:
MSVC 9.
ssize_t is not defined on some platforms:
MSVC 9.
mode_t is not defined on some platforms:
MSVC 9.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
blksize_t and suseconds_t
are signed integer types that are wider than long:
glibc x32
This module, together with the module largefile, also defines the type
off_t to a 64-bit integer type on some platforms:
mingw (except mingw64), MSVC 9.
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/sys_uio.h.html
Gnulib module: sys_uio
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
<sys/types.h> to be
included first) on some platforms:
OpenBSD 4.4.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/sys_un.h.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/sys_utsname.h.html
Gnulib module: sys_utsname
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/sys_wait.h.html
Gnulib module: sys_wait
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
WEXITSTATUS require an lvalue
argument on some platforms.
Mac OS X 10.5.
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/syslog.h.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/tar.h.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/termios.h.html
Gnulib module: termios
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
pid_t on all platforms:
glibc on some architectures, FreeBSD 6.4, OpenBSD 4.9, Cygwin 1.7.11.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
struct termios, cc_t, speed_t, tcflag_t
are not defined on some platforms:
mingw, MSVC 9.
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/tgmath.h.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/time.h.html
Gnulib module: time
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
NULL macro that cannot be used in arbitrary
expressions:
NetBSD 5.0
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
tv_nsec member of struct timespec
is not of type long, but is of type long long instead:
glibc x32
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/trace.h.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
Defines the types char16_t, char32_t and declares the
functions mbrtoc16, c16rtomb, mbrtoc32,
c32rtomb.
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/susv3xbd/ucontext.h.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/ulimit.h.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/unistd.h.html
Gnulib module: unistd
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
_exit function is not declared in this file on some platforms:
mingw.
NULL macro that cannot be used in arbitrary
expressions:
NetBSD 5.0
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/utime.h.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
<sys/utime.h>
if <utime.h> is missing.
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/utmpx.h.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/wchar.h.html
Gnulib module: wchar
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
wint_t and macro WEOF are missing on some platforms:
IRIX 5.3.
wint_t is incorrect on some platforms:
MSVC 9.
NULL macro that cannot be used in arbitrary
expressions:
NetBSD 5.0
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/wctype.h.html
Gnulib module: wctype-h
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
wint_t and macro WEOF are missing on some platforms:
IRIX 5.3.
wint_t is incorrect on some platforms:
MSVC 9.
isw* are missing on some platforms:
FreeBSD 4.11.
iswblank is declared but not defined on some platforms:
IRIX 6.5.30.
isw* are actually defined as macros that don't work,
on IRIX 5.3.
multibyte, as macros
on some platforms:
Solaris 2.6.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/wordexp.h.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
This chapter describes which functions and function-like macros specified by ISO C or POSIX are substituted by Gnulib, which portability pitfalls are fixed by Gnulib, and which (known) portability problems are not worked around by Gnulib.
The notation “Gnulib module: —” means that Gnulib does not provide a
module providing a substitute for the function. When the list
“Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib” is empty, such a module is
not needed: No portability problems are known. Otherwise, it indicates
that such a module would be useful but is not available: No one so far
found this function important enough to contribute a substitute for it.
If you need this particular function, you may write to
<bug-gnulib at gnu dot org>.
FD_CLR
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/FD_CLR.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
FD_ISSET
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/FD_ISSET.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
FD_SET
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/FD_SET.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
FD_ZERO
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/FD_ZERO.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
_ExitPOSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/_Exit.html
Gnulib module: _Exit
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
_exit
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/_exit.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
_longjmp
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/_longjmp.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
Note: A future revision of POSIX later than the 2008/2009 one may drop the
functions _setjmp and _longjmp. Still, in 2008, on all
systems which have _setjmp, it is the fastest way to save the
registers but not the signal mask (up to 30 times faster than setjmp
on some systems).
_setjmp
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/_setjmp.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
Note: A future revision of POSIX later than the 2008/2009 one may drop the
functions _setjmp and _longjmp. Still, in 2008, on all
systems which have _setjmp, it is the fastest way to save the
registers but not the signal mask (up to 30 times faster than setjmp
on some systems).
_tolower
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/_tolower.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
_toupper
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/_toupper.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
a64l
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/a64l.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
abort
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/abort.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
abs
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/abs.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
accept
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/accept.html
Gnulib module: accept
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
accept function cannot be used in calls to read,
write, and close; you have to use recv, send,
closesocket in these cases instead.
accept
are not placed in errno, and WSAGetLastError must be
used instead.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
accept function cannot be used
in calls to read, write, and close; you have to use
recv, send, closesocket in these cases instead.
socklen_t type; in this case this function's
third argument type is ‘int *’.
access
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/access.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
Other problems of this function:
stat versus lstat). If you need this option, use
the Gnulib module faccessat with the AT_EACCESS flag.
acos
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/acos.html
Gnulib module: acos
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
acosf
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/acosf.html
Gnulib module: acosf
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
acosh
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/acosh.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
acoshf
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/acoshf.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
acoshl
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/acoshl.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
acosl
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/acosl.html
Gnulib module: acosl
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
aio_cancel
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/aio_cancel.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
off_t is a 32-bit type, this function may not
work correctly on files larger than 2 GB. The fix is to use the
AC_SYS_LARGEFILE macro.
aio_error
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/aio_error.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
off_t is a 32-bit type, this function may not
work correctly on files larger than 2 GB. The fix is to use the
AC_SYS_LARGEFILE macro.
aio_fsync
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/aio_fsync.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
off_t is a 32-bit type, this function may not
work correctly on files larger than 2 GB. The fix is to use the
AC_SYS_LARGEFILE macro.
aio_read
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/aio_read.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
off_t is a 32-bit type, this function may not
work correctly on files larger than 2 GB. The fix is to use the
AC_SYS_LARGEFILE macro.
aio_return
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/aio_return.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
off_t is a 32-bit type, this function may not
work correctly on files larger than 2 GB. The fix is to use the
AC_SYS_LARGEFILE macro.
aio_suspend
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/aio_suspend.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
off_t is a 32-bit type, this function may not
work correctly on files larger than 2 GB. The fix is to use the
AC_SYS_LARGEFILE macro.
aio_write
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/aio_write.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
off_t is a 32-bit type, this function may not
work correctly on files larger than 2 GB. The fix is to use the
AC_SYS_LARGEFILE macro.
alarm
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/alarm.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
aligned_allocPortability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
alphasort
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/alphasort.html
Gnulib module: alphasort
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
const void * on some platforms:
glibc 2.3.6, Mac OS X 10.5, FreeBSD 6.0, NetBSD 5.0, OpenBSD 3.8, Interix 3.5.
void * on some platforms:
AIX 5.1.
asctime
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/asctime.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
asctime_r
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/asctime_r.html
Gnulib module: extensions
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS is not defined).
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
asin
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/asin.html
Gnulib module: asin
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
asinf
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/asinf.html
Gnulib module: asinf
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
asinh
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/asinh.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
asinhf
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/asinhf.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
asinhl
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/asinhl.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
asinl
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/asinl.html
Gnulib module: asinl
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
assert
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/assert.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
Extension: Gnulib offers a module ‘assert’ that allows the installer to disable assertions through a ‘configure’ option: ‘--disable-assert’.
atan
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/atan.html
Gnulib module: atan
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
atan2
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/atan2.html
Gnulib module: atan2
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
atan2f
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/atan2f.html
Gnulib module: atan2f
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
atan2l
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/atan2l.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
atanf
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/atanf.html
Gnulib module: atanf
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
atanh
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/atanh.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
atanhf
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/atanhf.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
atanhl
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/atanhl.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
atanl
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/atanl.html
Gnulib module: atanl
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
atexit
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/atexit.html
Gnulib module: atexit
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
atof
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/atof.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
atoi
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/atoi.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
atol
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/atol.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
atoll
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/atoll.html
Gnulib module: atoll
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
basename
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/basename.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
basename: the POSIX version and
the GNU version.
basename assumes file names in POSIX syntax; it does not work with file
names in Windows syntax.
bind
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/bind.html
Gnulib module: bind
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
bind
are not placed in errno, and WSAGetLastError must be
used instead.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
bsearch
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/bsearch.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
btowc
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/btowc.html
Gnulib module: btowc
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
wchar_t is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot
accommodate all Unicode characters.
c16rtombPortability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
c32rtombPortability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
cabs
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/cabs.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
cabsf
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/cabsf.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
cabsl
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/cabsl.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
cacos
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/cacos.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
cacosf
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/cacosf.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
cacosh
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/cacosh.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
cacoshf
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/cacoshf.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
cacoshl
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/cacoshl.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
cacosl
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/cacosl.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
calloc
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/calloc.html
Gnulib module: calloc-posix
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
errno to ENOMEM on
some platforms:
mingw, MSVC 9.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
Extension: Gnulib provides a module ‘calloc-gnu’ that substitutes a
calloc implementation that behaves more like the glibc implementation.
carg
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/carg.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
cargf
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/cargf.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
cargl
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/cargl.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
casin
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/casin.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
casinf
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/casinf.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
casinh
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/casinh.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
casinhf
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/casinhf.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
casinhl
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/casinhl.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
casinl
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/casinl.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
catan
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/catan.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
catanf
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/catanf.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
catanh
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/catanh.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
catanhf
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/catanhf.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
catanhl
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/catanhl.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
catanl
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/catanl.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
catclose
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/catclose.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
catgets
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/catgets.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
catopen
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/catopen.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
cbrt
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/cbrt.html
Gnulib module: cbrt
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
cbrtf
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/cbrtf.html
Gnulib module: cbrtf
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
cbrtl
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/cbrtl.html
Gnulib module: cbrtl or cbrtl-ieee
Portability problems fixed by either Gnulib module cbrtl or cbrtl-ieee
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib module cbrtl-ieee:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
ccos
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/ccos.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
ccosf
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/ccosf.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
ccosh
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/ccosh.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
ccoshf
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/ccoshf.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
ccoshl
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/ccoshl.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
ccosl
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/ccosl.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
ceil
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/ceil.html
Gnulib module: ceil or ceil-ieee
Portability problems fixed by either Gnulib module ceil or ceil-ieee:
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib module ceil-ieee:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
ceilf
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/ceilf.html
Gnulib module: ceilf or ceilf-ieee
Portability problems fixed by either Gnulib module ceilf or ceilf-ieee:
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib module ceilf-ieee:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
ceill
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/ceill.html
Gnulib module: ceill or ceill-ieee
Portability problems fixed by either Gnulib module ceill or ceill-ieee:
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib module ceill-ieee:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
cexp
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/cexp.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
cexpf
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/cexpf.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
cexpl
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/cexpl.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
cfgetispeed
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/cfgetispeed.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
cfgetospeed
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/cfgetospeed.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
cfsetispeed
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/cfsetispeed.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
cfsetospeed
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/cfsetospeed.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
chdir
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/chdir.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
<io.h> or
<direct.h>) on some platforms:
mingw, MSVC 9.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
chmod
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/chmod.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
chown
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/chown.html
Gnulib module: chown
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
chown("link-to-file/",uid,gid):
FreeBSD 7.2, AIX 7.1, Solaris 9.
lchown.
ENOSYS:
mingw, MSVC 9.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
cimag
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/cimag.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
cimagf
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/cimagf.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
cimagl
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/cimagl.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
clearerr
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/clearerr.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
clock
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/clock.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
clock_getcpuclockid
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/clock_getcpuclockid.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
clock_getres
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/clock_getres.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
clock_gettime
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/clock_gettime.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
clock_nanosleep
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/clock_nanosleep.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
clock_settime
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/clock_settime.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
clog
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/clog.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
clogf
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/clogf.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
clogl
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/clogl.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
close
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/close.html
Gnulib module: close
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
socket and accept
do not return file descriptors that can be closed by close.
Instead, closesocket must be used.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
socket and accept do not return file descriptors
that can be closed by close. Instead, closesocket must be
used.
closedir
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/closedir.html
Gnulib module: closedir
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
closelog
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/closelog.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
confstr
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/confstr.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
conj
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/conj.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
conjf
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/conjf.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
conjl
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/conjl.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
connect
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/connect.html
Gnulib module: connect
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
connect are not placed in errno, and
WSAGetLastError must be used instead.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
copysign
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/copysign.html
Gnulib module: copysign
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
copysignf
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/copysignf.html
Gnulib module: copysignf
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
copysignl
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/copysignl.html
Gnulib module: copysignl
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
cos
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/cos.html
Gnulib module: cos
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
cosf
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/cosf.html
Gnulib module: cosf
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
cosh
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/cosh.html
Gnulib module: cosh
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
coshf
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/coshf.html
Gnulib module: coshf
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
coshl
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/coshl.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
cosl
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/cosl.html
Gnulib module: cosl
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
cpow
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/cpow.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
cpowf
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/cpowf.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
cpowl
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/cpowl.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
cproj
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/cproj.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
cprojf
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/cprojf.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
cprojl
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/cprojl.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
creal
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/creal.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
crealf
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/crealf.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
creall
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/creall.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
creat
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/creat.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
O_TEXT mode. If you
need a file handle in O_BINARY mode, you need to use the function
open instead.
off_t is a 32-bit type, creat may not work
correctly to create files larger than 2 GB. The fix is to use the
AC_SYS_LARGEFILE macro.
crypt
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/crypt.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
<unistd.h>
(without -D_GNU_SOURCE) on some platforms:
glibc (at least 2.11–2.13).
csin
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/csin.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
csinf
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/csinf.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
csinh
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/csinh.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
csinhf
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/csinhf.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
csinhl
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/csinhl.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
csinl
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/csinl.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
csqrt
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/csqrt.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
csqrtf
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/csqrtf.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
csqrtl
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/csqrtl.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
ctan
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/ctan.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
ctanf
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/ctanf.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
ctanh
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/ctanh.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
ctanhf
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/ctanhf.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
ctanhl
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/ctanhl.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
ctanl
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/ctanl.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
ctermid
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/ctermid.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
ctime
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/ctime.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
ctime function need not be reentrant, and consequently is
not required to be thread safe. Implementations of ctime
typically write the time stamp into static buffer. If two threads
call ctime at roughly the same time, you might end up with the
wrong date in one of the threads, or some undefined string. There is
a re-entrant interface ctime_r.
A more flexible function is strftime. However, note that it is
locale dependent.
ctime_r
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/ctime_r.html
Gnulib module: extensions
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS is not defined).
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
ctime_r takes a pre-allocated buffer and length of the buffer,
and returns NULL on errors.
The input buffer should be at least 26 bytes in size. The output
string is locale-independent. However, years can have more than 4
digits if time_t is sufficiently wide, so the length of the
required output buffer is not easy to determine. Increasing the
buffer size when ctime_r returns NULL is not necessarily
sufficient. The NULL return value could mean some other error
condition, which will not go away by increasing the buffer size.
A more flexible function is strftime. However, note that it is
locale dependent.
daylight
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/daylight.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
dbm_clearerr
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/dbm_clearerr.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
dbm_close
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/dbm_close.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
dbm_delete
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/dbm_delete.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
dbm_error
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/dbm_error.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
dbm_fetch
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/dbm_fetch.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
dbm_firstkey
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/dbm_firstkey.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
dbm_nextkey
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/dbm_nextkey.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
dbm_open
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/dbm_open.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
dbm_store
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/dbm_store.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
difftime
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/difftime.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
dirfd
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/dirfd.html
Gnulib module: dirfd
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
With the dirfd module, this functions always sets errno when it
fails. (POSIX does not require that dirfd sets errno when it
fails.)
dirname
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/dirname.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
dirname assumes file names in POSIX syntax; it does not work with file
names in Windows syntax.
The Gnulib module dirname provides similar API that also works with
Windows file names.
div
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/div.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
dlclose
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/dlclose.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
dlerror
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/dlerror.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
dlopen
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/dlopen.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
dlsym
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/dlsym.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
dprintf
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/dprintf.html
Gnulib module: dprintf or dprintf-posix
Portability problems fixed by either Gnulib module dprintf or dprintf-posix:
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib module dprintf-posix:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
errno or the
stream error indicator on attempts to write to a read-only stream:
Cygwin 1.7.9.
drand48
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/drand48.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
dup
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/dup.html
Gnulib module: dup
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
dup2
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/dup2.html
Gnulib module: dup2 or dup2-obsolete
Portability problems fixed by either Gnulib module dup2 or dup2-obsolete:
FD_CLOEXEC flag when duplicating an fd
to itself on some platforms:
Haiku.
dup2 (1, 1) on some platforms:
Cygwin 1.5.x.
-EBADF instead of -1 on some platforms:
Linux releases between July 2008 and May 2009 (versions 2.6.27 to 2.6.29).
EMFILE instead of EBADF for
extremely large targets, which interferes with using
dup2(fd,fd)==fd) as the minimal EBADF filter:
FreeBSD 6.1, Cygwin 1.5.
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib module dup2-obsolete:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
duplocale
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/duplocale.html
Gnulib module: duplocale
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
LC_GLOBAL_LOCALE is not supported on some platforms:
glibc 2.11, AIX 7.1.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
encrypt
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/encrypt.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
<unistd.h>
(without -D_GNU_SOURCE) on some platforms:
glibc (at least 2.11–2.13).
endgrent
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/endgrent.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
endhostent
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/endhostent.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
endnetent
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/endnetent.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
endprotoent
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/endprotoent.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
endpwent
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/endpwent.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
endservent
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/endservent.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
endutxent
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/endutxent.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
environ
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/environ.html
Gnulib module: environ
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
extern char **environ;
to get the variable declared. This does not work any more, however, in shared libraries on Mac OS X 10.5. Here is a workaround: Instead, one can use
#include <crt_externs.h>
#define environ (*_NSGetEnviron())
This works at all versions of Mac OS X.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
erand48
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/erand48.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
erf
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/erf.html
Gnulib module: erf
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
erfc
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/erfc.html
Gnulib module: erfc
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
erfcf
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/erfcf.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
erfcl
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/erfcl.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
erff
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/erff.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
erfl
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/erfl.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
errno
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/errno.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
errno; their error code is
available through WSAGetLastError() instead.
execl
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/execl.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
execle
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/execle.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
execlp
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/execlp.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
execv
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/execv.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
execve
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/execve.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
execvp
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/execvp.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
exit
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/exit.html
Gnulib module: stdlib
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
EXIT_SUCCESS and EXIT_FAILURE,
see stdlib.h.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
exp
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/exp.html
Gnulib module: exp
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
exp2
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/exp2.html
Gnulib module: exp2
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
exp2f
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/exp2f.html
Gnulib module: exp2f
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
exp2l
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/exp2l.html
Gnulib module: exp2l or exp2l-ieee
Portability problems fixed by either Gnulib module exp2l or exp2l-ieee:
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib module exp2l-ieee:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
expf
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/expf.html
Gnulib module: expf
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
expl
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/expl.html
Gnulib module: expl
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
expm1
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/expm1.html
Gnulib module: expm1 or expm1-ieee
Portability problems fixed by either Gnulib module expm1 or expm1-ieee:
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib module expm1-ieee:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
expm1f
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/expm1f.html
Gnulib module: expm1f
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
expm1l
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/expm1l.html
Gnulib module: expm1l
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
fabs
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fabs.html
Gnulib module: fabs
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
fabsf
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fabsf.html
Gnulib module: fabsf
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
fabsl
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fabsl.html
Gnulib module: fabsl
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
faccessat
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/faccessat.html
Gnulib module: faccessat
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
Other problems of this function:
fattach
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fattach.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
fchdir
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fchdir.html
Gnulib module: fchdir
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
fchmod
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fchmod.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
fchmodat
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fchmodat.html
Gnulib module: fchmodat
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
fchmodat(...,AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW)
may fail with EOPNOTSUPP when called on a symlink, but some
platforms, as well as the gnulib replacement, fail for any use of
AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW even if the target was not a symlink:
glibc, Cygwin.
fchown
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fchown.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
fchownat
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fchownat.html
Gnulib module: fchownat
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
fchown(dir,"link-to-file/",uid,gid,flag):
Solaris 9.
AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW:
Linux kernel 2.6.17.
lchown is unsupported, or fail altogether if
chown is unsupported.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
fclose
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fclose.html
Gnulib module: fclose
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
socket and accept
followed by fdopen do not return streams that can be closed by
fclose.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
errno
upon failure.
fcntl
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fcntl.html
Gnulib module: fcntl
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC on some
platforms:
glibc with Linux kernels before 2.6.24,
Mac OS X 10.5, FreeBSD 6.0, NetBSD 5.0, OpenBSD 3.8, AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11,
IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 11 2010-11, Cygwin 1.7.1, Interix 3.5,
BeOS.
Note that the gnulib replacement code is functional but not atomic.
F_DUPFD action of this function does not reject
out-of-range targets properly on some platforms:
Cygwin 1.5.x, Haiku.
F_DUPFD action of this function mistakenly clears
FD_CLOEXEC on the source descriptor on some platforms:
Haiku.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
F_SETFD,
F_GETFL, F_SETFL, F_GETOWN, F_SETOWN,
F_GETLK, F_SETLK, and F_SETLKW on some platforms:
mingw, MSVC 9.
fdatasync
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fdatasync.html
Gnulib module: fdatasync
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
fdetach
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fdetach.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
fdim
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fdim.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
fdimf
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fdimf.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
fdiml
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fdiml.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
fdopen
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fdopen.html
Gnulib module: fdopen
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
errno
upon failure.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
fdopendir
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fdopendir.html
Gnulib module: fdopendir
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
feclearexcept
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/feclearexcept.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
fegetenv
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fegetenv.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
fegetexceptflag
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fegetexceptflag.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
fegetround
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fegetround.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
feholdexcept
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/feholdexcept.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
feof
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/feof.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
feraiseexcept
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/feraiseexcept.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
ferror
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/ferror.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
fesetenv
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fesetenv.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
fesetexceptflag
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fesetexceptflag.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
fesetround
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fesetround.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
fetestexcept
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fetestexcept.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
feupdateenv
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/feupdateenv.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
fexecve
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fexecve.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
fflush
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fflush.html
Gnulib module: fflush
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
fflush followed by fseek or fseeko, applied to an input
stream, should have the effect of positioning the underlying file descriptor.
It doesn't do this on some platforms.
fflush on an input stream changes the position of the stream to the
end of the previous buffer, on some platforms: mingw, MSVC 9.
fflush on an input stream right after ungetc does not discard
the ungetc buffer, on some platforms:
Mac OS X 10.5, FreeBSD 6.0, NetBSD 5.0, OpenBSD 3.8, Cygwin 1.5.25-10.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
fflush, ftell, ftello, fgetpos behave incorrectly
on input streams that are opened in O_TEXT mode and whose contents
contains Unix line terminators (LF), on some platforms: mingw, MSVC 9.
errno
upon failure.
MSVC_INVALID_PARAMETER_HANDLING is
HAIRY_LIBRARY_HANDLING or SANE_LIBRARY_HANDLING,
on some platforms:
MSVC 9.
fflush on an input stream right after ungetc does not discard
the ungetc buffer, on some platforms:
AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 11 2010-11, mingw, MSVC 9.
ffs
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/ffs.html
Gnulib module: ffs
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
fgetc
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fgetc.html
Gnulib module: stdio, nonblocking
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib module stdio, together with module nonblocking:
errno being set to EINVAL instead of EAGAIN on
some platforms:
mingw, MSVC 9.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
feof would return nonzero. However, on some systems this
function attempts to read from the underlying file descriptor even if
the stream's end-of-file indicator is set. These systems include
glibc and default Solaris.
errno
upon failure.
MSVC_INVALID_PARAMETER_HANDLING is
HAIRY_LIBRARY_HANDLING or SANE_LIBRARY_HANDLING,
on some platforms:
MSVC 9.
fgetpos
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fgetpos.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
fflush, ftell, ftello, fgetpos behave incorrectly
on input streams that are opened in O_TEXT mode and whose contents
contains Unix line terminators (LF), on some platforms: mingw, MSVC 9.
off_t is a 32-bit type, this function may not
work correctly on files larger than 2 GB. The fix is to use the
AC_SYS_LARGEFILE macro.
off_t is a 64-bit type, but fseeko is
not present, stream operations on files larger than 2 GB silently do
the wrong thing. This affects BSD/OS, which is mostly obsolete.
fgets
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fgets.html
Gnulib module: stdio, nonblocking
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib module stdio, together with module nonblocking:
errno being set to EINVAL instead of EAGAIN on
some platforms:
mingw, MSVC 9.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
feof would return nonzero. However, on some systems this
function attempts to read from the underlying file descriptor even if
the stream's end-of-file indicator is set. These systems include
glibc and default Solaris.
errno
upon failure.
fgetwc
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fgetwc.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
wchar_t is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot
accommodate all Unicode characters.
fgetws
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fgetws.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
wchar_t is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot
accommodate all Unicode characters.
fileno
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fileno.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
flockfile
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/flockfile.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
floor
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/floor.html
Gnulib module: floor or floor-ieee
Portability problems fixed by either Gnulib module floor or floor-ieee:
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib module floor-ieee:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
floorf
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/floorf.html
Gnulib module: floorf or floorf-ieee
Portability problems fixed by either Gnulib module floorf or floorf-ieee:
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib module floorf-ieee:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
floorl
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/floorl.html
Gnulib module: floorl or floorl-ieee
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
fma
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fma.html
Gnulib module: fma
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
fmaf
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fmaf.html
Gnulib module: fmaf
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
fmal
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fmal.html
Gnulib module: fmal
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
fmax
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fmax.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
fmaxf
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fmaxf.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
fmaxl
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fmaxl.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
fmemopen
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fmemopen.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
fmin
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fmin.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
fminf
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fminf.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
fminl
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fminl.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
fmod
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fmod.html
Gnulib module: fmod or fmod-ieee
Portability problems fixed by either Gnulib module fmod or fmod-ieee:
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib module fmod-ieee:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
fmodf
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fmodf.html
Gnulib module: fmodf or fmodf-ieee
Portability problems fixed by either Gnulib module fmodf or fmodf-ieee:
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib module fmodf-ieee:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
fmodl
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fmodl.html
Gnulib module: fmodl or fmodl-ieee
Portability problems fixed by either Gnulib module fmodl or fmodl-ieee:
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib module fmodl-ieee:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
fmtmsg
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fmtmsg.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
fnmatch
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fnmatch.html
Gnulib module: fnmatch or fnmatch-gnu
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
fopen
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fopen.html
Gnulib module: fopen
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
off_t is a 32-bit type, fopen may not work
correctly with files larger than 2 GB. (Cf. AC_SYS_LARGEFILE.)
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
errno
upon failure.
'\n' to CR/LF by default. Use the
"b" flag if you need reliable binary I/O.
fstat after open and
fdopen, rather than fopen and fileno.
fork
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fork.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
fork followed by a call of the exec family
(execl, execlp, execle, execv, execvp,
or execve) is less efficient than vfork followed by the same
call. vfork is a variant of fork that has been introduced to
optimize the fork/exec pattern.
spawnvp instead.
fpathconf
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fpathconf.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
fpclassify
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fpclassify.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
fprintf
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fprintf.html
Gnulib module: fprintf-posix or stdio, nonblocking, sigpipe
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib module fprintf-posix:
hh, ll,
j, t, z) on some platforms:
AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11.23, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 9, Cygwin 1.5.24, mingw, MSVC 9, BeOS.
"%f", "%e", "%g" of Infinity and NaN yields an
incorrect result on some platforms:
AIX 5.2, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 11 2011-11, mingw, MSVC 9.
"%2$s", on some platforms:
NetBSD 3.0, mingw, MSVC 9, BeOS.
' flag on some platforms:
NetBSD 3.0, Cygwin 1.5.24, mingw, MSVC 9.
"%010f" of NaN and Infinity yields an incorrect result (padded
with zeroes) on some platforms:
Mac OS X 10.5, FreeBSD 6.0, NetBSD 5.0, AIX 5.2, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 11 2011-11, Cygwin 1.5.x, mingw, MSVC 9.
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib module stdio or fprintf-posix, together with module nonblocking:
errno being set to ENOSPC instead of EAGAIN on some
platforms:
mingw, MSVC 9.
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib module stdio or fprintf-posix, together with module sigpipe:
SIGPIPE handler, on some platforms:
mingw, MSVC 9.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
EOF but
does not set the error flag for ferror on some platforms:
glibc 2.13, cygwin 1.7.9.
fputc
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fputc.html
Gnulib module: stdio, nonblocking, sigpipe
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib module stdio, together with module nonblocking:
errno being set to ENOSPC instead of EAGAIN on some
platforms:
mingw, MSVC 9.
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib module stdio, together with module sigpipe:
SIGPIPE handler, on some platforms:
mingw, MSVC 9.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
errno
upon failure.
errno or the
stream error indicator on attempts to write to a read-only stream:
Cygwin 1.7.9.
MSVC_INVALID_PARAMETER_HANDLING is
HAIRY_LIBRARY_HANDLING or SANE_LIBRARY_HANDLING,
on some platforms:
MSVC 9.
fputs
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fputs.html
Gnulib module: stdio, nonblocking, sigpipe
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib module stdio, together with module nonblocking:
errno being set to ENOSPC instead of EAGAIN on some
platforms:
mingw, MSVC 9.
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib module stdio, together with module sigpipe:
SIGPIPE handler, on some platforms:
mingw, MSVC 9.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
errno
upon failure.
errno or the
stream error indicator on attempts to write to a read-only stream:
Cygwin 1.7.9.
fputwc
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fputwc.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
wchar_t is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot
accommodate all Unicode characters.
fputws
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fputws.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
wchar_t is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot
accommodate all Unicode characters.
errno or the
stream error indicator on attempts to write to a read-only stream:
Cygwin 1.7.9.
fread
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fread.html
Gnulib module: stdio, nonblocking
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib module stdio, together with module nonblocking:
errno being set to EINVAL instead of EAGAIN on
some platforms:
mingw, MSVC 9.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
feof would return nonzero. However, on some systems this
function attempts to read from the underlying file descriptor even if
the stream's end-of-file indicator is set. These systems include
glibc and default Solaris.
errno
upon failure.
MSVC_INVALID_PARAMETER_HANDLING is
HAIRY_LIBRARY_HANDLING or SANE_LIBRARY_HANDLING,
on some platforms:
MSVC 9.
free
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/free.html
Gnulib module: free
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
free (NULL) fails.
However, since all such systems are so old as to no longer
be considered “reasonable portability targets,”
this module is no longer useful.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
freeaddrinfo
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/freeaddrinfo.html
Gnulib module: getaddrinfo
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
freelocale
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/freelocale.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
freopen
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/freopen.html
Gnulib module: freopen
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
off_t is a 32-bit type, freopen may not work
correctly with files larger than 2 GB. (Cf. AC_SYS_LARGEFILE.)
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
errno
upon failure.
NULL file name argument on some
platforms:
OpenBSD 4.9, AIX 7.1, HP-UX 11.23, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 10, mingw, MSVC 9.
fileno(f) will be the same
before and after a call to freopen(name,mode,f). However, the
module freopen-safer can at least protect stdin, stdout,
and stderr.
frexp
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/frexp.html
Gnulib module: frexp
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
frexpf
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/frexpf.html
Gnulib module: frexpf
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
frexpl
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/frexpl.html
Gnulib module: frexpl
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
fscanf
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fscanf.html
Gnulib module: stdio, nonblocking
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib module stdio, together with module nonblocking:
errno being set to EINVAL instead of EAGAIN on
some platforms:
mingw, MSVC 9.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
feof would return nonzero. However, on some systems this
function attempts to read from the underlying file descriptor even if
the stream's end-of-file indicator is set. These systems include
glibc and default Solaris.
errno
upon failure.
hh, ll, j,
t, z size specifiers.
fseek
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fseek.html
Gnulib module: fseek
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
errno
upon failure.
long is a 32-bit type, fseek does not work
correctly with files larger than 2 GB, even when the AC_SYS_LARGEFILE
macro is used. The fix is to use fseeko instead.
fseeko
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fseeko.html
Gnulib module: fseeko
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
fseeko in <stdio.h> is not enabled by default
on some platforms:
glibc 2.3.6, OSF/1 5.1.
off_t is a 32-bit type, fseeko does not work
correctly with files larger than 2 GB. (Cf. AC_SYS_LARGEFILE.)
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
off_t is a 64-bit type, but fseeko is
not present, stream operations on files larger than 2 GB silently do
the wrong thing. This affects BSD/OS, which is mostly obsolete.
fsetpos
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fsetpos.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
off_t is a 32-bit type, this function may not
work correctly on files larger than 2 GB. The fix is to use the
AC_SYS_LARGEFILE macro.
fstat
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fstat.html
Gnulib module: fstat
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
off_t is a 32-bit type, fstat may not correctly
report the size of files or block devices larger than 2 GB.
(Cf. AC_SYS_LARGEFILE.)
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
struct stat.
fstat applied to the file descriptors 0 and 1, returns
different st_ino values, even if standard input and standard output
are not redirected and refer to the same terminal.
fstatat
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fstatat.html
Gnulib module: fstatat
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
off_t is a 32-bit type, fstatat may
not correctly report the size of files or block devices larger than 2
GB. (Cf. AC_SYS_LARGEFILE.)
fstatat(fd,"file/",buf,flag) succeeds instead of
failing with ENOTDIR.
Solaris 9.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
struct stat.
fstatvfs
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fstatvfs.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
f_blocks in ‘struct statvfs’ is a 32-bit
value, this function may not work correctly on files systems larger than
4 TiB. The fix is to use the AC_SYS_LARGEFILE macro. This affects
glibc/Hurd, HP-UX 11, Solaris.
fsync
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fsync.html
Gnulib module: fsync
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
ftell
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/ftell.html
Gnulib module: ftell
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
putc that followed a
getc call that reached EOF on some platforms:
Solaris 11 2010-11.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
fseek on some
platforms:
HP-UX 11.
fflush, ftell, ftello, fgetpos behave incorrectly
on input streams that are opened in O_TEXT mode and whose contents
contains Unix line terminators (LF), on some platforms: mingw, MSVC 9.
long is a 32-bit type, ftell does not work
correctly with files larger than 2 GB, even when the AC_SYS_LARGEFILE
macro is used. The fix is to use ftello instead.
ftello
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/ftello.html
Gnulib module: ftello
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
ftello in <stdio.h> is not enabled by default
on some platforms:
glibc 2.3.6, OSF/1 5.1.
putc that followed a
getc call that reached EOF on some platforms:
Solaris 11 2010-11.
off_t is a 32-bit type, ftello does not work
correctly with files larger than 2 GB. (Cf. AC_SYS_LARGEFILE.)
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
fseek on some
platforms:
HP-UX 11.
fflush, ftell, ftello, fgetpos behave incorrectly
on input streams that are opened in O_TEXT mode and whose contents
contains Unix line terminators (LF), on some platforms: mingw, MSVC 9.
off_t is a 64-bit type, but fseeko is
not present, stream operations on files larger than 2 GB silently do
the wrong thing. This affects BSD/OS, which is mostly obsolete.
ftok
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/ftok.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
ftruncate
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/ftruncate.html
Gnulib module: ftruncate
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
off_t is a 32-bit type, this function is not
applicable to arbitrary lengths for files larger than 2 GB. The fix is to
use the AC_SYS_LARGEFILE macro.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
ftrylockfile
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/ftrylockfile.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
ftw
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/ftw.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
off_t is a 32-bit type, this function may not
correctly report the size of files or block devices larger than 2 GB.
The fix is to use the AC_SYS_LARGEFILE macro.
funlockfile
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/funlockfile.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
futimens
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/futimens.html
Gnulib module: futimens
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
ENOSYS on some platforms:
Linux kernel 2.6.21.
UTIME_OMIT or UTIME_NOW, some systems require
the tv_sec argument to be 0, and don't necessarily handle all
file permissions in the manner required by POSIX:
Linux kernel 2.6.25.
UTIME_OMIT for the modification time, but specifying
an access time, some systems fail to update the change time:
Linux kernel 2.6.32.
AT_FDCWD as the fd argument does not properly fail with
EBADF on some systems:
glibc 2.11, Solaris 11.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
ENOSYS; the gnulib
module ‘utimens’ provides a more reliable interface fdutimens.
stat modifies the access time of
directories on some platforms, so utimensat can only
effectively change directory modification time:
Cygwin 1.5.x.
fwide
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fwide.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
wchar_t is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot
accommodate all Unicode characters.
fwide is not guaranteed to be able to change a file stream's mode
to a different mode than the current one.
fwprintf
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fwprintf.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
wchar_t is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot
accommodate all Unicode characters.
errno or the
stream error indicator on attempts to write to a read-only stream:
Cygwin 1.7.9.
fwrite
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fwrite.html
Gnulib module: stdio, nonblocking, sigpipe
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib module stdio, together with module nonblocking:
errno being set to ENOSPC instead of EAGAIN on some
platforms:
mingw, MSVC 9.
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib module stdio, together with module sigpipe:
SIGPIPE handler, on some platforms:
mingw, MSVC 9.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
errno
upon failure.
errno or the
stream error indicator on attempts to write to a read-only stream:
Cygwin 1.7.9.
MSVC_INVALID_PARAMETER_HANDLING is
HAIRY_LIBRARY_HANDLING or SANE_LIBRARY_HANDLING,
on some platforms:
MSVC 9.
fwscanf
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fwscanf.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
wchar_t is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot
accommodate all Unicode characters.
gai_strerror
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/gai_strerror.html
Gnulib module: getaddrinfo
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
<ws2tcpip.h> on some
platforms:
mingw, MSVC 9.
char * instead of const char *
on some platforms:
AIX 7.1, HP-UX 11, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 9, mingw, MSVC 9.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
getaddrinfo
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/getaddrinfo.html
Gnulib module: getaddrinfo
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
<ws2tcpip.h> rather than in
<netdb.h>.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
getc
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/getc.html
Gnulib module: stdio, nonblocking
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib module stdio, together with module nonblocking:
errno being set to EINVAL instead of EAGAIN on
some platforms:
mingw, MSVC 9.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
feof would return nonzero. However, on some systems this
function attempts to read from the underlying file descriptor even if
the stream's end-of-file indicator is set. These systems include
glibc and default Solaris.
errno
upon failure.
getc_unlocked
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/getc_unlocked.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
getchar
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/getchar.html
Gnulib module: stdio, nonblocking
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib module stdio, together with module nonblocking:
errno being set to EINVAL instead of EAGAIN on
some platforms:
mingw, MSVC 9.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
feof would return nonzero. However, on some systems this
function attempts to read from the underlying file descriptor even if
the stream's end-of-file indicator is set. These systems include
glibc and default Solaris.
errno
upon failure.
getchar_unlocked
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/getchar_unlocked.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
getcwd
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/getcwd.html
Gnulib module: getcwd or getcwd-lgpl
Portability problems fixed by either Gnulib module getcwd or
getcwd-lgpl:
<io.h> or
<direct.h>) on some platforms:
mingw, MSVC 9.
getcwd (NULL, n) allocates memory for the result.
On some other platforms, this call is not allowed.
getcwd uses int
instead of size_t for the size argument when using non-standard
headers, and the declaration is missing from <unistd.h>:
mingw, MSVC 9.
getcwd (buf, 0) fails with ERANGE
instead of the required EINVAL:
mingw, MSVC 9.
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib module getcwd:
PATH_MAX)
correctly on some platforms:
glibc on Linux 2.4.20, Mac OS X 10.5, FreeBSD 6.4, NetBSD 5.1, OpenBSD 4.9, AIX 7.1.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
getcwd(NULL, nonzero), some platforms, such as glibc
or cygwin, allocate exactly nonzero bytes and fail with
ERANGE if it was not big enough, while other platforms, such as
FreeBSD, mingw, or MSVC 9, ignore the size argument and allocate whatever size
is necessary. If this call succeeds, an application cannot portably
access beyond the string length of the result.
getdate
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/getdate.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
Gnulib provides a module parse-datetime that contains a function
parse_datetime
that has similar functionality as the getdate function.
getdate_err
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/getdate_err.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
getdelim
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/getdelim.html
Gnulib module: getdelim
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
getegid
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/getegid.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
getenv
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/getenv.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
geteuid
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/geteuid.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
getgid
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/getgid.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
getgrent
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/getgrent.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
getgrgid
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/getgrgid.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
getgrgid_r
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/getgrgid_r.html
Gnulib module: extensions
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS is not defined).
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
getgrnam
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/getgrnam.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
getgrnam_r
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/getgrnam_r.html
Gnulib module: extensions
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS is not defined).
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
getgroups
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/getgroups.html
Gnulib module: getgroups
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
getgroups (0, NULL) always fails. See macro
‘AC_FUNC_GETGROUPS’.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
gethostent
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/gethostent.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
gethostid
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/gethostid.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
gethostname
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/gethostname.html
Gnulib module: gethostname
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
int instead of size_t
on some platforms:
OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 10.
EINVAL, instead of returning a truncated host name.
getitimer
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/getitimer.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
getline
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/getline.html
Gnulib module: getline
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
getlogin
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/getlogin.html
Gnulib module: getlogin
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
getlogin_r
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/getlogin_r.html
Gnulib module: getlogin_r
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
_REENTRANT is defined,
on some platforms:
HP-UX 11.
ERANGE, when the buffer is not large enough, on some platforms:
OSF/1 5.1.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS is not defined).
EINVAL instead of ERANGE when
the second argument is zero on some platforms:
HP-UX 11.31.
getmsg
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/getmsg.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
getnameinfo
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/getnameinfo.html
Gnulib module: getaddrinfo
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
getnetbyaddr
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/getnetbyaddr.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
getnetbyname
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/getnetbyname.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
getnetent
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/getnetent.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
getopt
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/getopt.html
Gnulib module: getopt-posix or getopt-gnu
The module getopt-gnu has support for “long options” and for
“options that take optional arguments”. Compared to the API defined by POSIX,
it adds a header file <getopt.h> and a function getopt_long.
Portability problems fixed by either Gnulib module getopt-posix or getopt-gnu:
optind after a missing required argument is wrong
on some platforms:
Mac OS X 10.5, AIX 7.1, mingw.
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib module getopt-gnu:
getopt does not support the ‘+’ flag in the options
string on some platforms:
Mac OS X 10.5, AIX 5.2, HP-UX 11, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 11 2010-11.
getopt does not obey the combination of ‘+’
and ‘:’ flags in the options string on some platforms:
glibc 2.11.
getopt does not obey the ‘-’ flag in the options
string when POSIXLY_CORRECT is set on some platforms:
Cygwin 1.7.0.
getopt does not support options with optional arguments
on some platforms:
Mac OS X 10.5, OpenBSD 4.0, AIX 5.2, HP-UX 11, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1,
Solaris 11 2010-11, Cygwin 1.5.x.
getopt_long is missing on some platforms:
AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 9, MSVC 9, Interix 3.5.
getopt_long does not support abbreviated long options
where all disambiguations are equivalent on some platforms:
OpenBSD 5.0.
getopt_long_only is missing on some platforms:
Mac OS X 10.3, FreeBSD 5.2.1, NetBSD 5.0, AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11, IRIX 6.5,
OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 9, mingw, MSVC 9, Interix 3.5.
W; on some
platforms:
glibc 2.14.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
getopt allows
mixing option and non-option arguments on the command line in any order.
Other implementations, such as the one in Cygwin, enforce strict POSIX
compliance: they require that the option arguments precede the non-option
arguments. This is something to watch out in your program's
testsuite.
optind to 0. Several BSD implementations provide optreset,
causing a reset by setting it non-zero, although it does not
necessarily re-read POSIXLY_CORRECT. Solaris getopt does
not support either reset method, but does not maintain state that
needs the extra level of reset.
getpeername
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/getpeername.html
Gnulib module: getpeername
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
getpeername are not placed in errno, and
WSAGetLastError must be used instead.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
socklen_t type; in this case this function's
third argument type is ‘int *’.
getpgid
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/getpgid.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
getpgrp
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/getpgrp.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
getpid
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/getpid.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
getpmsg
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/getpmsg.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
getppid
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/getppid.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
getpriority
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/getpriority.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
getprotobyname
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/getprotobyname.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
getprotobynumber
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/getprotobynumber.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
getprotoent
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/getprotoent.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
getpwent
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/getpwent.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
getpwnam
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/getpwnam.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
getpwnam_r
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/getpwnam_r.html
Gnulib module: extensions
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS is not defined).
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
getpwuid
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/getpwuid.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
getpwuid_r
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/getpwuid_r.html
Gnulib module: extensions
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS is not defined).
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
getrlimit
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/getrlimit.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
rlim_t is a 32-bit type, this function does not
allow to retrieve limits larger than 4 GB, such as for RLIMIT_FSIZE. The
fix is to use the AC_SYS_LARGEFILE macro.
getrusage
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/getrusage.html
Gnulib module: getrusage
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
struct rusage with
meaningful values.
gets
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/gets.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
errno being set to EINVAL instead of EAGAIN on
some platforms:
mingw, MSVC 9.
errno
upon failure.
getservbyname
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/getservbyname.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
getservbyport
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/getservbyport.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
getservent
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/getservent.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
getsid
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/getsid.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
getsockname
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/getsockname.html
Gnulib module: getsockname
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
getsockname are not placed in errno, and
WSAGetLastError must be used instead.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
socklen_t type; in this case this function's
third argument type is ‘int *’.
getsockopt
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/getsockopt.html
Gnulib module: getsockopt
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
getsockopt are not placed in errno, and
WSAGetLastError must be used instead.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
socklen_t type; in this case this function's
fifth argument type is ‘int *’.
setsockopt function, but not the getsockopt
function.
getsubopt
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/getsubopt.html
Gnulib module: getsubopt
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
unistd.h instead of
stdlib.h on some platforms:
Cygwin 1.7.1.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
gettimeofday
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/gettimeofday.html
Gnulib module: gettimeofday
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
struct
timezone* rather than void *, making it an error to redeclare
the function with the POSIX signature:
glibc.
However, rather than penalize these systems with a replacement
function, gnulib defines GETTIMEOFDAY_TIMEZONE to the
appropriate type for use in avoiding a compiler warning if assigning
gettimeofday to a function pointer.
gettimeofday clobbers the buffer in which
localtime returns its result:
Mac OS X 10.0.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
gettimeofday
is not NULL.
getuid
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/getuid.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
getutxent
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/getutxent.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
getutxid
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/getutxid.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
getutxline
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/getutxline.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
getwc
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/getwc.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
wchar_t is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot
accommodate all Unicode characters.
getwchar
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/getwchar.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
wchar_t is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot
accommodate all Unicode characters.
glob
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/glob.html
Gnulib module: glob
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
off_t is a 32-bit type, this function may not
work correctly on huge directories larger than 2 GB.
(Cf. AC_SYS_LARGEFILE.)
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
gl_flags field.
globfree
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/globfree.html
Gnulib module: glob
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
gmtime
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/gmtime.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
gmtime_r
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/gmtime_r.html
Gnulib module: time_r
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
_REENTRANT is defined,
on some platforms:
HP-UX 11.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
grantpt
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/grantpt.html
Gnulib module: grantpt
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
hcreate
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/hcreate.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
hdestroy
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/hdestroy.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
hsearch
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/hsearch.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
htonl
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/htonl.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
htons
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/htons.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
hypot
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/hypot.html
Gnulib module: hypot or hypot-ieee
Portability problems fixed by either Gnulib module hypot or hypot-ieee:
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib module hypot-ieee:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
hypotf
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/hypotf.html
Gnulib module: hypotf or hypotf-ieee
Portability problems fixed by either Gnulib module hypotf or hypotf-ieee:
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib module hypot-ieee:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
hypotl
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/hypotl.html
Gnulib module: hypotl or hypotl-ieee
Portability problems fixed by either Gnulib module hypotl or hypotl-ieee:
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib module hypotl-ieee:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
iconv
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/iconv.html
Gnulib module: iconv
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
iconv encounters an input character that is valid but that
cannot be converted to the output character set, glibc's and GNU libiconv's
iconv stop the conversion. Some other implementations put an
implementation-defined character into the output buffer.
Gnulib provides higher-level facilities striconv and striconveh
(wrappers around iconv) that deal with conversion errors in a platform
independent way.
iconv_close
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/iconv_close.html
Gnulib module: iconv
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
iconv_open
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/iconv_open.html
Gnulib module: iconv, iconv_open, iconv_open-utf
Portability problems fixed by either Gnulib module iconv or iconv_open:
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib module iconv_open:
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib module iconv_open-utf:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
striconveh (a wrapper around iconv) that deals with
this problem.
if_freenameindex
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/if_freenameindex.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
if_indextoname
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/if_indextoname.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
if_nameindex
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/if_nameindex.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
if_nametoindex
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/if_nametoindex.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
ilogb
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/ilogb.html
Gnulib module: ilogb
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
ilogbf
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/ilogbf.html
Gnulib module: ilogbf
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
ilogbl
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/ilogbl.html
Gnulib module: ilogbl
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
imaxabs
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/imaxabs.html
Gnulib module: imaxabs
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
imaxdiv
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/imaxdiv.html
Gnulib module: imaxdiv
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
inet_addr
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/inet_addr.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
inet_ntoa
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/inet_ntoa.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
inet_ntoa function need not be reentrant, and consequently
is not required to be thread safe. Implementations of
inet_ntoa typically write the time stamp into static buffer.
If two threads call inet_ntoa at roughly the same time, you
might end up with the wrong date in one of the threads, or some
undefined string.
Note: inet_ntoa is specific for IPv4 addresses.
A protocol independent function is inet_ntop.
inet_ntop
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/inet_ntop.html
Gnulib module: inet_ntop
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
<netdb.h> instead of <arpa/inet.h>
on some platforms:
NonStop Kernel.
<ws2tcpip.h>, with a POSIX incompatible
declaration, on some platforms:
MSVC 9 on Windows >= Vista.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
size_t instead of
socklen_t on some platforms:
OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 10.
inet_pton
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/inet_pton.html
Gnulib module: inet_pton
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
<netdb.h> instead of <arpa/inet.h>
on some platforms:
NonStop Kernel.
<ws2tcpip.h>, with a POSIX incompatible
declaration, on some platforms:
MSVC 9 on Windows >= Vista.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
initstate
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/initstate.html
Gnulib module: random
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
insque
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/insque.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
ioctl
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/ioctl.html
Gnulib module: ioctl
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
ioctl is called
ioctlsocket, and error codes for this function are not placed in
errno, and WSAGetLastError must be used instead.
unsigned long
rather than int.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
ioctl requests are platform and hardware specific.
isalnum
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/isalnum.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
Note: This function's behaviour depends on the locale, but does not support
the multibyte characters that occur in strings in locales with
MB_CUR_MAX > 1 (this includes all the common UTF-8 locales).
There are four alternative APIs:
c_isalnumiswalnummbrtowc function. It is provided by the Gnulib module
‘wctype’.
mb_isalnumuc_is_alnumisalnum_l
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/isalnum_l.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
isalpha
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/isalpha.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
Note: This function's behaviour depends on the locale, but does not support
the multibyte characters that occur in strings in locales with
MB_CUR_MAX > 1 (this includes all the common UTF-8 locales).
There are four alternative APIs:
c_isalphaiswalphambrtowc function. It is provided by the Gnulib module
‘wctype’.
mb_isalphauc_is_alphaisalpha_l
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/isalpha_l.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
isascii
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/isascii.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
Note: This function's behaviour depends on the locale, but requires special
handling for the multibyte characters that occur in strings in locales with
MB_CUR_MAX > 1 (this includes all the common UTF-8 locales).
There are two alternative APIs:
c_isasciimb_isasciiisastream
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/isastream.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
isatty
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/isatty.html
Gnulib module: isatty
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
isblank
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/isblank.html
Gnulib module: isblank
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
Note: This function's behaviour depends on the locale, but does not support
the multibyte characters that occur in strings in locales with
MB_CUR_MAX > 1 (this includes all the common UTF-8 locales).
There are four alternative APIs:
c_isblankiswblankmbrtowc function. It is provided by the Gnulib module
‘wctype’.
mb_isblankuc_is_blankisblank_l
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/isblank_l.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
iscntrl
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/iscntrl.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
Note: This function's behaviour depends on the locale, but does not support
the multibyte characters that occur in strings in locales with
MB_CUR_MAX > 1 (this includes all the common UTF-8 locales).
There are four alternative APIs:
c_iscntrliswcntrlmbrtowc function. It is provided by the Gnulib module
‘wctype’.
mb_iscntrluc_is_cntrliscntrl_l
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/iscntrl_l.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
isdigit
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/isdigit.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
Note: This function's behaviour depends on the locale, but does not support
the multibyte characters that occur in strings in locales with
MB_CUR_MAX > 1 (this includes all the common UTF-8 locales).
There are four alternative APIs:
c_isdigitiswdigitmbrtowc function. It is provided by the Gnulib module
‘wctype’.
mb_isdigituc_is_digitisdigit_l
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/isdigit_l.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
isfinite
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/isfinite.html
Gnulib module: isfinite
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
isfinite raises an
exception given a signaling NaN operand.
isgraph
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/isgraph.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
Note: This function's behaviour depends on the locale, but does not support
the multibyte characters that occur in strings in locales with
MB_CUR_MAX > 1 (this includes all the common UTF-8 locales).
There are four alternative APIs:
c_isgraphiswgraphmbrtowc function. It is provided by the Gnulib module
‘wctype’.
mb_isgraphuc_is_graphisgraph_l
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/isgraph_l.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
isgreater
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/isgreater.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
isgreaterequal
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/isgreaterequal.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
isinf
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/isinf.html
Gnulib module: isinf
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
isless
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/isless.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
islessequal
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/islessequal.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
islessgreater
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/islessgreater.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
islower
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/islower.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
Note: This function's behaviour depends on the locale, but does not support
the multibyte characters that occur in strings in locales with
MB_CUR_MAX > 1 (this includes all the common UTF-8 locales).
There are four alternative APIs:
c_isloweriswlowermbrtowc function. It is provided by the Gnulib module
‘wctype’.
mb_isloweruc_is_lowerislower_l
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/islower_l.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
isnan
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/isnan.html
Gnulib module: isnan
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
isnan was introduced with C99 and is thus commonly not present
on pre-C99 systems.
isnan is not a macro on some platforms:
IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1 with gcc, Solaris 11 2011-11.
cc, isnan does not recognize some NaNs.
isnan does not recognize some
forms of NaNs, such as pseudo-NaNs, pseudo-Infinities, and
unnormalized numbers.
__builtin_isnanl (and thus
isnan implementations based on it) in GCC 4.0 and later does
not recognize pseudo-denormals as NaNs, and similarly for
pseudo-zeroes, unnormalized numbers, and pseudo-denormals on ia64.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
isnormal
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/isnormal.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
isprint
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/isprint.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
Note: This function's behaviour depends on the locale, but does not support
the multibyte characters that occur in strings in locales with
MB_CUR_MAX > 1 (this includes all the common UTF-8 locales).
There are four alternative APIs:
c_isprintiswprintmbrtowc function. It is provided by the Gnulib module
‘wctype’.
mb_isprintuc_is_printisprint_l
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/isprint_l.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
ispunct
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/ispunct.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
Note: This function's behaviour depends on the locale, but does not support
the multibyte characters that occur in strings in locales with
MB_CUR_MAX > 1 (this includes all the common UTF-8 locales).
There are four alternative APIs:
c_ispunctiswpunctmbrtowc function. It is provided by the Gnulib module
‘wctype’.
mb_ispunctuc_is_punctispunct_l
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/ispunct_l.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
isspace
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/isspace.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
Note: This function's behaviour depends on the locale, but does not support
the multibyte characters that occur in strings in locales with
MB_CUR_MAX > 1 (this includes all the common UTF-8 locales).
There are four alternative APIs:
c_isspaceiswspacembrtowc function. It is provided by the Gnulib module
‘wctype’.
mb_isspaceuc_is_spaceisspace_l
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/isspace_l.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
isunordered
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/isunordered.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
isupper
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/isupper.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
Note: This function's behaviour depends on the locale, but does not support
the multibyte characters that occur in strings in locales with
MB_CUR_MAX > 1 (this includes all the common UTF-8 locales).
There are four alternative APIs:
c_isupperiswuppermbrtowc function. It is provided by the Gnulib module
‘wctype’.
mb_isupperuc_is_upperisupper_l
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/isupper_l.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
iswalnum
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/iswalnum.html
Gnulib module: wctype-h
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
wchar_t is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot
accommodate all Unicode characters.
iswalnum_l
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/iswalnum_l.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
wchar_t is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot
accommodate all Unicode characters.
iswalpha
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/iswalpha.html
Gnulib module: wctype-h
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
wchar_t is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot
accommodate all Unicode characters.
iswalpha_l
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/iswalpha_l.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
wchar_t is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot
accommodate all Unicode characters.
iswblank
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/iswblank.html
Gnulib module: iswblank
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
-D_GNU_SOURCE) on some platforms:
glibc 2.8.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
wchar_t is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot
accommodate all Unicode characters.
iswblank_l
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/iswblank_l.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
wchar_t is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot
accommodate all Unicode characters.
iswcntrl
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/iswcntrl.html
Gnulib module: wctype-h
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
wchar_t is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot
accommodate all Unicode characters.
iswcntrl_l
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/iswcntrl_l.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
wchar_t is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot
accommodate all Unicode characters.
iswctype
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/iswctype.html
Gnulib module: iswctype
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
<wchar.h>, not in <wctype.h>, on
some platforms:
HP-UX 11.00.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
wchar_t is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot
accommodate all Unicode characters.
iswctype_l
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/iswctype_l.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
wchar_t is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot
accommodate all Unicode characters.
iswdigit
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/iswdigit.html
Gnulib module: wctype-h
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
wchar_t is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot
accommodate all Unicode characters.
iswdigit_l
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/iswdigit_l.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
wchar_t is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot
accommodate all Unicode characters.
iswgraph
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/iswgraph.html
Gnulib module: wctype-h
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
wchar_t is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot
accommodate all Unicode characters.
iswgraph_l
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/iswgraph_l.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
wchar_t is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot
accommodate all Unicode characters.
iswlower
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/iswlower.html
Gnulib module: wctype-h
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
wchar_t is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot
accommodate all Unicode characters.
iswlower_l
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/iswlower_l.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
wchar_t is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot
accommodate all Unicode characters.
iswprint
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/iswprint.html
Gnulib module: wctype-h
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
wchar_t is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot
accommodate all Unicode characters.
iswprint_l
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/iswprint_l.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
wchar_t is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot
accommodate all Unicode characters.
iswpunct
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/iswpunct.html
Gnulib module: wctype-h
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
wchar_t is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot
accommodate all Unicode characters.
iswpunct_l
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/iswpunct_l.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
wchar_t is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot
accommodate all Unicode characters.
iswspace
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/iswspace.html
Gnulib module: wctype-h
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
wchar_t is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot
accommodate all Unicode characters.
iswspace_l
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/iswspace_l.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
wchar_t is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot
accommodate all Unicode characters.
iswupper
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/iswupper.html
Gnulib module: wctype-h
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
wchar_t is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot
accommodate all Unicode characters.
iswupper_l
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/iswupper_l.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
wchar_t is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot
accommodate all Unicode characters.
iswxdigit
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/iswxdigit.html
Gnulib module: wctype-h
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
wchar_t is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot
accommodate all Unicode characters.
iswxdigit_l
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/iswxdigit_l.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
wchar_t is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot
accommodate all Unicode characters.
isxdigit
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/isxdigit.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
Note: This function's behaviour depends on the locale, but does not support
the multibyte characters that occur in strings in locales with
MB_CUR_MAX > 1 (this includes all the common UTF-8 locales).
There are four alternative APIs:
c_isxdigitiswxdigitmbrtowc function. It is provided by the Gnulib module
‘wctype’.
mb_isxdigituc_is_xdigitisxdigit_l
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/isxdigit_l.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
j0
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/j0.html
Gnulib module: j0
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
j1
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/j1.html
Gnulib module: j1
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
jn
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/jn.html
Gnulib module: jn
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
jrand48
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/jrand48.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
kill
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/kill.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
killpg
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/killpg.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
l64a
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/l64a.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
labs
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/labs.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
lchown
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/lchown.html
Gnulib module: lchown
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
lchown("link-to-file/",uid,gid):
FreeBSD 7.2, Solaris 9.
lchmod, the replacement only fixes this for non-symlinks:
OpenBSD 4.0.
chown is supported, and fails altogether
with ENOSYS otherwise:
Mac OS X 10.3, Minix 3.1.8, mingw, MSVC 9, BeOS.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
lcong48
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/lcong48.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
ldexp
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/ldexp.html
Gnulib module: ldexp
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
ldexpf
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/ldexpf.html
Gnulib module: ldexpf
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
ldexpl
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/ldexpl.html
Gnulib module: ldexpl
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
<math.h> on some platforms:
Mac OS X.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
ldiv
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/ldiv.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
lfind
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/lfind.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
lgamma
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/lgamma.html
Gnulib module: lgamma
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
lgammaf
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/lgammaf.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
lgammal
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/lgammal.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
link
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/link.html
Gnulib module: link
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
linkat
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/linkat.html
Gnulib module: linkat
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
AT_SYMLINK_FOLLOW on some platforms:
Linux kernel 2.6.17.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
lio_listio
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/lio_listio.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
off_t is a 32-bit type, this function may not
work correctly on files larger than 2 GB. The fix is to use the
AC_SYS_LARGEFILE macro.
listen
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/listen.html
Gnulib module: listen
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
listen
are not placed in errno, and WSAGetLastError must be
used instead.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
llabs
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/llabs.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
lldiv
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/lldiv.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
llrint
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/llrint.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
llrintf
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/llrintf.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
llrintl
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/llrintl.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
llround
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/llround.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
llroundf
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/llroundf.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
llroundl
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/llroundl.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
localeconv
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/localeconv.html
Gnulib module: localeconv
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
struct lconv type does not contain any members on some platforms:
Android.
struct lconv type does not contain the members
int_p_cs_precedes, int_p_sign_posn, int_p_sep_by_space,
int_n_cs_precedes, int_n_sign_posn, int_n_sep_by_space
on some platforms:
glibc, OpenBSD 4.9, HP-UX 11, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 11 2011-11, Cygwin 1.5.x, mingw, MSVC 9.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
localtime
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/localtime.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
localtime_r
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/localtime_r.html
Gnulib module: time_r
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
_REENTRANT is defined,
on some platforms:
HP-UX 11.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
lockf
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/lockf.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
off_t is a 32-bit type, this function may not
work correctly across the entire data range of files larger than 2 GB.
The fix is to use the AC_SYS_LARGEFILE macro.
log
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/log.html
Gnulib module: log or log-ieee
Portability problems fixed by either Gnulib module log or log-ieee:
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib module log-ieee:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
log10
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/log10.html
Gnulib module: log10 or log10-ieee
Portability problems fixed by either Gnulib module log10 or log10-ieee:
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib module log10-ieee:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
log10f
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/log10f.html
Gnulib module: log10f or log10f-ieee
Portability problems fixed by either Gnulib module log10f or log10f-ieee:
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib module log10f-ieee:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
log10l
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/log10l.html
Gnulib module: log10l
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
log1p
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/log1p.html
Gnulib module: log1p or log1p-ieee
Portability problems fixed by either Gnulib module log1p or log1p-ieee:
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib module log1p-ieee:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
log1pf
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/log1pf.html
Gnulib module: log1pf or log1pf-ieee
Portability problems fixed by either Gnulib module log1pf or log1pf-ieee:
-1.0f on some platforms:
IRIX 6.5.
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib module log1pf-ieee:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
log1pl
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/log1pl.html
Gnulib module: log1pl or log1pl-ieee
Portability problems fixed by either Gnulib module log1pl or log1pl-ieee:
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib module log1pl-ieee:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
log2
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/log2.html
Gnulib module: log2 or log2-ieee
Portability problems fixed by either Gnulib module log2 or log2-ieee:
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib module log2-ieee:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
log2f
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/log2f.html
Gnulib module: log2f or log2f-ieee
Portability problems fixed by either Gnulib module log2f or log2f-ieee:
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib module log2f-ieee:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
log2l
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/log2l.html
Gnulib module: log2l
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
logb
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/logb.html
Gnulib module: logb
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
logbf
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/logbf.html
Gnulib module: logbf
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
logbl
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/logbl.html
Gnulib module: logbl
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
logf
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/logf.html
Gnulib module: logf or logf-ieee
Portability problems fixed by either Gnulib module logf or logf-ieee:
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib module logf-ieee:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
logl
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/logl.html
Gnulib module: logl
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
longjmp
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/longjmp.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
sigaltstack), on FreeBSD, NetBSD,
OpenBSD, you need to clear the SS_ONSTACK flag in the stack_t
structure managed by the kernel.
lrand48
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/lrand48.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
lrint
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/lrint.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
lrintf
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/lrintf.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
lrintl
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/lrintl.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
lround
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/lround.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
lroundf
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/lroundf.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
lroundl
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/lroundl.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
lsearch
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/lsearch.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
lseek
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/lseek.html
Gnulib module: lseek
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
off_t is a 32-bit type, lseek does not work
correctly with files larger than 2 GB. (Cf. AC_SYS_LARGEFILE.)
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
lseek should set
errno to EINVAL and return −1, but in this situation a
SIGSYS signal is raised on some platforms:
IRIX 6.5.
lseek function fails, POSIX says that the file offset remains
unchanged. But on some platforms, attempting to set a negative file offset
fails and sets the file offset to 0:
BeOS.
lstat
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/lstat.html
Gnulib module: lstat
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
off_t is a 32-bit type, lstat may not
correctly report the size of files or block devices larger than 2 GB.
(Cf. AC_SYS_LARGEFILE.)
lstat("file/",buf) succeeds instead of
failing with ENOTDIR.
Solaris 9.
lstat does not exist.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
struct stat.
malloc
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/malloc.html
Gnulib module: malloc-posix
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
errno to ENOMEM on
some platforms:
mingw, MSVC 9.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
malloc (0) always returns a NULL pointer on some platforms:
AIX 5.1, OSF/1 5.1.
Extension: Gnulib provides a module ‘malloc-gnu’ that substitutes a
malloc implementation that behaves more like the glibc implementation,
regarding the result of malloc (0).
mblen
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/mblen.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
mbrlen
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/mbrlen.html
Gnulib module: mbrlen
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
mbrtoc16Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
mbrtoc32Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
mbrtowc
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/mbrtowc.html
Gnulib module: mbrtowc
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
pwc argument is NULL on some platforms:
Solaris 7.
pwc argument if the string argument is
NULL on some platforms:
OSF/1 5.1.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
wchar_t is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot
accommodate all Unicode characters.
mbsinit
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/mbsinit.html
Gnulib module: mbsinit
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
mbsnrtowcs
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/mbsnrtowcs.html
Gnulib module: mbsnrtowcs
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
wchar_t is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot
accommodate all Unicode characters.
mbsrtowcs
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/mbsrtowcs.html
Gnulib module: mbsrtowcs
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
wchar_t is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot
accommodate all Unicode characters.
mbstowcs
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/mbstowcs.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
wchar_t