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From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
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Subject: Re: Fix for environ pollution
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Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 10:16:10 -0500 (CDT)
In-Reply-To: <2719-Wed11Aug2004065357+0300-eliz@gnu.org> from "Eli Zaretskii" at Aug 11, 2004 06:53:58 AM
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> > Instead of putting environ in djgpp.djl, could we use a define statement
> > in a header outside the ansi and posix definitions? 
> 
> I think we cannot do this because Posix explicitly says that environ
> is not declared in any header.
> 
> In other words, a Posix program that uses environ is not required to
> include any system header, and it still can expect environ to be
> available.

OK, so Posix insists it be there without declaration, but ansi says it
shouldn't be there ... It seems PROVIDE is the only fix.

Sounds like a good fix to me.  Thanks Esa.