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From: Thomas David Rivers <ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com>
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To: bde@zeta.org.au, ponds!freebsd.org!freebsd-hackers,
        ponds!uriah.heep.sax.de!j
Subject: Re: netdb.h and -traditional...
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> 
> >> 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.
> 
> This is broken for gcc -traditional.  It works for non-gcc non-ANSI
> compilers.
> 
> Bruce
> 

 So - should someone fix cdefs for GCC, or simply fix netdb.h?

	- Dave R. -