Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 09:43:03 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: jgrosch@superior.mooseriver.com Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Porting question Message-ID: <199705211643.JAA03451@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199705210519.WAA08921@superior.mooseriver.com> from "Josef Grosch" at May 20, 97 10:19:11 pm
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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. Do not directly reference sys_errlist[] in your code, use strerror() instead. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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