Date: Sat, 17 Aug 1996 09:52:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas David Rivers <ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com> To: bde@zeta.org.au, ponds!freebsd.org!freebsd-hackers, ponds!uriah.heep.sax.de!j Cc: ponds!ponds!rivers Subject: Re: netdb.h and -traditional... Message-ID: <199608171352.JAA09556@lakes.water.net>
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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. -
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