[systemd-devel] [RFC] Initial work for asyncns push

[Daniel Buch]

Cool, thanks you for the very decent reply.. I will work on this the next
few days, you can then expect some new RFC's :)


2013/12/11 Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net>

> On Wed, 11.12.13 02:18, Lennart Poettering (lennart at poettering.net) wrote:
>
> > > C99 or C89? Do we want it to be public or private?
> >
> > Internally we use C99 and a lot of gcc extensions.
> >
> > Externally we limit ourselves to C89.
> >
> > One effect of this is that internally we use the C99 bool type for
> > booleans, but externally we use "int" when things show up in public
> > APIs.
>
> And to extend on this: this actually has weird effects. C99 bool will
> actually downgrade to "int" automatically when passed to functions as
> arguments (and vice versa). However gcc uses a different size in memory
> for this, which means that for doing call-by-value you can rely on this
> automatic conversion but if you do call-by-reference, then things will
> go boom in major ways.
>
> Lennart
>
> --
> Lennart Poettering, Red Hat
>
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