On Sun, Jul 28, 2024 at 10:34:11PM +0200, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
Mirror glibc behavior for compatibility.
Generally speaking I think you should make a bit longer sentences in your commit messages, Thomas. One first reason is to think that during reviews the reviewer has to scroll up to find the subject for the context this sentence applies to. And doing so quickly encourages to give a little bit more background to justify a change. I have a simple principle that works reasonably fine for this, which is that a commit subject should normally be unique in a project (modulo rare cases, reverts or accidents) and that commit message bodies should really always be unique. Here we see that it doesn't work ;-)
An example could be something like this:
Glibc has been passing argc/argv/envp to constructors since version XXX. This is particularly convenient, and missing it can significantly complicate some ports to nolibc. Let's do the same since it's an easy change that comes at no cost.
Anyway I agree with the change, I wasn't aware of this support from glibc, so thank you for enlighting me on this one ;-)
Willy