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Posted to dev@httpd.apache.org by Jim Jagielski <ji...@jaguNET.com> on 2002/07/05 16:11:37 UTC
Re: Christopher Williamson: URGENT: Bug/compatability issue in Apache 1.3.26 (fwd)
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> Subject: Re: Christopher Williamson: URGENT: Bug/compatability issue in Apache 1.3.26
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> In-Reply-To: <20...@deejai2.mch.fsc.net> from "Martin Kraemer" at Jul 04, 2002 05:50:48 PM
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> Martin Kraemer wrote:
> >
> > About the %n: Do you know of any platform that doesn't have it? It was
> > already in X3J11 (1988 ANSI-C) so I thought it's clean enuff.
> >
>
> NeXT and A/UX are 2 that immediately springs to mind. They use, IIRC,
> the native libc, which is not fully ANSI. Not an issue for 2.0,
> where we require full ANSI (compiler and libs) but one for 1.3
> where ANSI libs have been not assumed in general. Don't want to
> introduce something that might stop present 1.3 users from being
> able to upgrade, esp. with the 1.3 tree "winding down" a bit.
>
> Some will seg fault with the extra parameter, others will leave &n
> alone, which means the check fails.
>
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