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Date:      Sat, 31 May 1997 13:10:46 +0200
From:      Arne Henrik Juul <arnej@stud.math.ntnu.no>
To:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, j@uriah.heep.sax.de
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: bcc vs cc/gcc (float)
Message-ID:  <199705311110.EAA20164@hub.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 31 May 1997 11:43:54 %2B0200"
References:  <19970531114354.LA46881@uriah.heep.sax.de>

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j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) wrote:
> IMHO, Posix specifies the `extern char **environ' extension however.
> This seems to be more liberal in that the implementation is free in
> how this pointer is being initialized.
> 
> I don't see a declaration for environ in our /usr/include/ files.
> Shouldn't it be there?

Posix doesn't specify any (which I think was a mistake), but it would
be nice to have it as an extension.  Maybe in <unistd.h> like
sys_siglist? (<unistd.h>: everything that doesn't fit anywhere else :-)

  -  Arne H. J.



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