Re: PL/Perl and Perl 5.8

Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com> writes:
> Well, I'm not happy with defining _GNU_SOURCE, but I don't agree that
> just saying "it's a Perl problem" is a good answer. That may well be
> the case, but it doesn't change the fact that a lot of people are
> running 5.8.0, and will probably continue to do so during the 7.3
> lifecycle[1]. We work around braindamage on other systems -- strictely
> speaking, we could say "the snprintf() bug with 64-bit Solaris is a
> Sun libc problem", for example.

Well, I'm not opposed to a workaround in principle; I'm just unconvinced
that this is the right solution. Do we understand what is broken and
why -D_GNU_SOURCE fixes it?

regards, tom lane