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From: Josef Grosch <jgrosch@superior.mooseriver.com>
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Subject: Porting question
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I know this issue has been beat to death several times before BUT.....

I am porting a piece of code to FreeBSD and gcc bitches about this;

    extern char* sys_errlist[];

Now the fast way to handle this is;

    #ifndef  __FreeBSD__
    extern char* sys_errlist[];
    #endif

But this is very non-portable.  Any suggestions as the correct way to
handle this would be helpful.


Josef

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