Date: Sat, 13 May 1995 23:31:46 -0500 (CDT)
From: Aaron Ucko <UCKO AT VAX1 DOT ROCKHURST DOT EDU>
Subject: Re: pause() function?
To: jess AT dlep1 DOT itg DOT ti DOT com
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Organization: Rockhurst College; Kansas City, MO

>In the file DJGPPSTD.H I have found a prototype
>
>void volatile pause(void);  <-- #included in STD.H
>
>which conflicts with a user-defined function of the same name which has been
>used liberally throughout many programs I am interested in porting to DJGPP.
>As far as I can tell this function is undocumented and no such symbol is
>defined in any of the "standard" library (*.a) files. Does this function
>exist? If so, what does it do? If not, why is the prototype defined by STD.H?

pause() is not in the V1 libraries, but it should be in the V2 ones, as it
is a standard POSIX function [although POSIX declares it as returning int].
If you absolutely need to use a different function of the same name,
then you can do something like this:

#define pause PAUSIX
#include <djgppstd.h>
#undef pause

[which makes djgppstd.h declare PAUSIX() rather than pause()].

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