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Eric Blake wrote, On 2.2.2011 0:45:
> On 02/01/2011 03:41 PM, Rusty Russell wrote:
>> OK, your /usr/include/err.h doesn't have the annotations to tell gcc that it
>> doesn't return.
> 
> I'm a bit surprised that cygwin provides the BSD interface err() but
> lacks the glibc interface error() from "error.h", even though both
> interfaces are equally non-standard, and cygwin strives more for Linux
> compatibility.  But that's besides the point.
It should not be surprising. Cygwin strives to be Linux compatbile using
source code from *BSD systems. Implementation of err() can just be copied
from *BSD. The GNU stuff has to be implemented from scratch, if I understand
the lincense correctly.

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