Re: How to enable BSD defined names / functions

On Sun, Nov 21, 2021 at 1:58 PM Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 21, 2021 at 01:51:00PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
> > There's rather a lot of software that defines _POSIX_C_SOURCE to some
> value
> > (usually 200809L for POSIX-1.2008), but also wants to use other things.
> >
> > One can generally work around this issue by defining __BSD_VISIBLE=1, but
> > most other systems have something more specific. NetBSD has
> _NETBSD_SOURCE.
> > OpenBSD has _OPENBSD_SOURCE as well. There's also some expectation that
> > _BSD_SOURCE can be defined, but none of the currently active BSDs has
> that.
> >
> > It appears from casual inspection that _NETBSD_SOURCE=1 means
> approximately
> > the same as __BSD_VISIBLE=1 in FreeBSD.
> >
> > Would it make sense to add a _FREEBSD_SOURCE=1 case and have it include
> > __BSD_VISIBLE=1 regardless  of what other macros (especially
> > _POSIX_C_SOURCE) are defined to be a more regimented and defined way to
> > expand the namespace when multiple namespaces are defined?
>
> Please note that _BSD_VISIBLE works by presence, and not by value.
> Same as things like _GNU_SOURCE.
>

This stuff is complicated, so I may have overlooked something. _GNU_SOURCE
is indeed by presence. But I couldn't find any instances of _BSD_VISIBLE in
the
tree, just __BSD_VISIBLE where it's tested as simply '#if __BSD_VISIBLE'
since it
seems to be defined always. Have I overlooked something?


> Yes, it makes sense to have _FREEBSD_SOURCE symbol that would imply total
> visibility and override any _POSIX_C_SOURCE.
>

Great. I'll work up a patch.

Warner