getline and _GNU_SORCE

[Bernhard Reiter]

Am 14. Aug 2005 um 09:11:45 schrieb Jakson Aquino:
> I'm trying to avoid the use of the option "rlen". 

Good idea, it is always best to have this dynamically.

> The buffer size for reading lines will be dynamically 
> determined by GNU extension to libc, the function 
> getline. However, I have to add #define _GNU_SOURCE 
> before #include <stdio.h>. Will this cause any problem?

In general I would hope to conform to C-standards
for a simple application like statist.

> Anyway, I will create a substitute getline() for MinGW, 
> and CygWin which don't have GNU getline. 

If you do this anyway, why not use this routine by default,
this would avoid the _GNU_SOURCE extensions.

	Bernhard
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