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"Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" wrote: > > At 03:26 PM 11/7/2001, Charles Wilson wrote: > > > Which is kinda mess since there's even no header on Linux which > > > defines __progname. Is there _any_ standard on where to define > > > __progname? > > > >Hmm...it looks like __progname is a BSDism -- and I saw stuff where THEY > >were complaining that it wasn't declared in system headers. Apparently, > >the "standard" is to declare "extern char * __progname" in your own code > >-- which makes portable __declspec'ing difficult, unless we do something > >ugly like: > > > >#ifdef CYGWIN > >extern __declspec(dllimport) char * __progname; > >#else > >extern char * __progname; > >#fi > > > >in all client code that wants __progname. Or, just make sure folks use > >new compilers and live with the "warning" about auto-import. > > Assuming it's easy to turn off the auto-import warning (and only this > warning), I'd say the latter is the best approach. Actually, no -- it's a hardcoded warning for now. We wanted to leave it for a while, until the auto-import stuff settled down. Removing (or changing the priority of) those warnings is a topic for another thread. --Chuck
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