The GNU Toolchain Has Made Much Progress So Far In 2017

[phoronix]

Phoronix: The GNU Toolchain Has Made Much Progress So Far In 2017

Red Hat's Nick Clifton has written a lengthy update concerning the state of the GNU Toolchain as we near the end of the first quarter, 2017...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...lchain-2017-Q1

[wagaf]

I might have missed something... They refuse to implement the standardized function memset_s but do implement non-standard explicit_bzero ??

[arakan94]

I might have missed something... They refuse to implement the standardized function memset_s but do implement non-standard explicit_bzero ??

difference is that no one really uses memset_s (it's optional part of C11 standard) while explicit_bzero is a real thing used in BSD. And being compatible with BSD is good thing

[pal666]

difference is that no one really uses memset_s (it's optional part of C11 standard) while explicit_bzero is a real thing used in BSD. And being compatible with BSD is good thing

i'd say it's less good than being compatible with all parts of c11

[arakan94]

i'd say it's less good than being compatible with all parts of c11

Yeah - I'd do both memset_s and explicit_bzero.. And the original mistake was making parts of C11 optional - you can never really use any of it if you want to write multi-platform code.