Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 06:50:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/13029: regex.h should include sys/types.h Message-ID: <199908101350.GAA87487@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/13029; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> To: David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca> Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/13029: regex.h should include sys/types.h Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 15:36:10 +0200 In <owner-freebsd-bugsATFreeBSD.ORG--199908081541.LAA61376@strike.velocet.ca>, David Gilbert wrote: > > >Number: 13029 > >Category: bin > >Synopsis: Subject: regex.h should include sys/types.h As stated in the man page, you have to include sys/types by yourself before regex.h A reason why this such things are done is that sys/types narrows down the choice of identifiers you may use in your program. For each header file, there's a list of reserved identifies. If you include sys/types.h by yourself, you will know that you have to avoid them. If some other header file with a different reserved identifier list silently includes a file with other reservations, the user don't recognize. Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer <cracauer@bik-gmbh.de> http://www.bik-gmbh.de/~cracauer/ "Where do you want to do today?" Hard to tell running your calendar program on a junk operating system, eh? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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