From:	rgordon AT vnet DOT net ("Ryan C. Gordon")
Subject:	String.h vs string.h bug...
25 Apr 1997 02:36:22 -0700 :
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Heya.

Don't know if this has been found before, but I think I have a bug in 
the 17.1 beta release...

Very simply, when compiling a C++ program that includes <string.h>, 
the preprocessor includes <String.h> from the C++ include directory, 
instead of the (lower case) string.h from the C include dir. This 
isn't a problem under Unix, I suppose, since "String.h" and 
"string.h" aren't the same file, but under Windows 95, it's causing 
problems. Besides annoying warnings of "implicit" declarations of 
strchr(), I get programs that won't compile due to this error:

myfile.cc:23: ANSI C++ forbids comparison between pointer and integer

ugh. For the time being, I've been adding the function prototypes 
myself (usually just need strcpy and a few others...), but this needs 
to be fixed/worked around.

Thanks,
--Ryan C. Gordon.


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