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Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 09:08:33 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Robinow <drobinow AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Re: include incompatibilities
To: towo AT computer DOT org, cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
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--- towo AT computer DOT org wrote:
> I had lamented about incompatible changes in include
> files.
 Incompatible with what?
> May I repeat the practical essence of my previous
> mail which is the 
> question: How can these things be detected by
> #ifdef's without 
> referring to actual system specifics as below?
> 
> #include <errno.h>
> #ifdef __CYGWIN__	/* and version > something ... !
> */
> #define sys_nerr _sys_nerr
> #define sys_errlist _sys_errlist
> #endif
> 
> (On "classical" systems, the exported names are
> without underlines - 
> why do these name manglings have to be imposed on
> us?)
 Looking around the office, I find

IRIX 6.5 sys_nerr and sys_errlist are only defined
with use of the Non-ANSI switch.

Solaris 6.5 sys_nerr and sys_errlist are not defined
at all.

If by "classical" you mean "obsolete" you might have a
point.

It really seems to me that it would be less effort to
change your program than to convince the whole world
to go backward 10 years.


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