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strtod: fix clash with strtold Problem reported for RHEL 5 by Jesse Caldwell (Bug#34817). * lib/strtod.c (compute_minus_zero, minus_zero): Simplify by remving the macro / external variable, and having just a function. User changed. This avoids the need for an external variable that might clash.
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1 /* System call limits
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3 Copyright 2018-2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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5 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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6 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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7 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
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8 any later version.
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10 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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11 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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12 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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13 GNU General Public License for more details.
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15 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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16 along with this program; if not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
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18 #ifndef _GL_SYS_LIMITS_H
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19 #define _GL_SYS_LIMITS_H
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21 #include <limits.h>
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23 /* Maximum number of bytes to read or write in a single system call.
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24 This can be useful for system calls like sendfile on GNU/Linux,
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25 which do not handle more than MAX_RW_COUNT bytes correctly.
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26 The Linux kernel MAX_RW_COUNT is at least INT_MAX >> 20 << 20,
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27 where the 20 comes from the Hexagon port with 1 MiB pages; use that
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28 as an approximation, as the exact value may not be available to us.
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30 Using this also works around a serious Linux bug before 2.6.16; see
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31 <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=612839>.
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33 Using this also works around a Tru64 5.1 bug, where attempting
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34 to read INT_MAX bytes fails with errno == EINVAL. See
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35 <https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-gnu-utils/2002-04/msg00010.html>.
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37 Using this is likely to work around similar bugs in other operating
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38 systems. */
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40 enum { SYS_BUFSIZE_MAX = INT_MAX >> 20 << 20 };
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42 #endif