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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, j@uriah.heep.sax.de
Subject: Re: netdb.h and -traditional...
Cc: ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com
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>> While building some older (non-ANSI) sources with the -traditional
>> flag, I ran into the following (on 2.1.5) on line 139 of netdb.h:
>> 
>> const char      *hstrerror __P((int)); 
>> 
>> which, of course, breaks because 'const' is ANSI.

>It is, of course :), supposed to work, since <sys/cdefs.h> #define's
>const to nothing when working on a non-ANSI compiler.

This is broken for gcc -traditional.  It works for non-gcc non-ANSI
compilers.

Bruce