[PATCH:libICE] Add AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS to make asprintf() visible in GNU libc

Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Wed Dec 22 08:07:39 PST 2010


On 12/22/10 06:08 AM, Gaetan Nadon wrote:
> Not directly related to this patch, but the process.c file has a good number of
> ^L characters showing up in vi.
> It has probably been edited under a particular locale.

That would be the "C" locale, and programmers using the ancient idiom of ^L
as page break, to make printouts of source code slightly more readable by
starting each function or group of functions on a new page.

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