Date: Sat, 17 Aug 1996 08:05:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas David Rivers <ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, ponds!freefall.cdrom.com!freebsd-hackers Subject: Re: netdb.h and -traditional... Message-ID: <199608171205.IAA08980@lakes.water.net>
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> > As Thomas David Rivers wrote: > > > While building some older (non-ANSI) sources with the -traditional > > flag, I ran into the following (on 2.1.5) on line 139 of netdb.h: > > > > const char *hstrerror __P((int)); > > > > which, of course, breaks because 'const' is ANSI. > > It is, of course :), supposed to work, since <sys/cdefs.h> #define's > const to nothing when working on a non-ANSI compiler. Yep - it's supposed to do that, but doesn't... A couple of whacks at <sys/cdefs.h> should fix it. I played around with it a little, but when cdefs.h didn't appear to #define const (and the other keywords) away, I just quickly punted to my other fix. - Dave R. -
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