// Workarounds for horrible build environment idiosyncrasies.
+
// Instead of polluting the code with strange #ifdefs to work around bugs
// in specific compiler, library, or OS versions, localize all that here
// and in portability.c
#undef _FORTIFY_SOURCE
+// Test for gcc (using compiler builtin #define)
+
+#ifdef __GNUC__
+#define noreturn __attribute__((noreturn))
+#else
+#define noreturn
+#endif
+
// Always use long file support.
#define _FILE_OFFSET_BITS 64
-// This isn't in the spec, but it's how we determine what we're using.
+// This isn't in the spec, but it's how we determine what libc we're using.
#include <features.h>
#define AT_REMOVEDIR 0x200
#endif
+// We don't define GNU_dammit because we're not part of the gnu project, and
+// don't want to get any FSF on us. Unfortunately glibc (gnu libc)
+// won't give us Linux syscall wrappers without claiming to be part of the
+// gnu project (because Stallman's "GNU owns Linux" revisionist history
+// crusade includes the kernel, even though Linux was inspired by Minix).
+
+// We use most non-posix Linux syscalls directly through the syscall() wrapper,
+// but even many posix-2008 functions aren't provided by glibc unless you
+// claim it's in the name of Gnu.
+
#if defined(__GLIBC__)
// "Function prototypes shall be provided." but aren't.
// http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/unistd.h.html
char *crypt(const char *key, const char *salt);
-// An SUSv4 function that glibc refuses to #define without crazy #defines,
// see http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/strptime.html
#include <time.h>
char *strptime(const char *buf, const char *format, struct tm *tm);
#include <stdio.h>
ssize_t getdelim(char **lineptr, size_t *n, int delim, FILE *stream);
-// When building under obsolete glibc, hold its hand a bit.
+// When building under obsolete glibc (Ubuntu 8.04-ish), hold its hand a bit.
#elif __GLIBC__ == 2 && __GLIBC_MINOR__ < 10
#define fstatat fstatat64
int fstatat64(int dirfd, const char *pathname, void *buf, int flags);
#include <stdio.h>
ssize_t getdelim(char **lineptr, size_t *n, int delim, FILE *stream);
-// Straight from posix-2008, things old glibc didn't define
+// Straight from posix-2008, things old glibc had but didn't prototype
int faccessat(int fd, const char *path, int amode, int flag);
int linkat(int fd1, const char *path1, int fd2, const char *path2, int flag);
#endif
-// Test for gcc
-
-#ifdef __GNUC__
-#define noreturn __attribute__((noreturn))
-#else
-#define noreturn
-#endif
+// Work out how to do endianness
#ifndef __APPLE__
#include <byteswap.h>