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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Porting question
To: jgrosch@superior.mooseriver.com
Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 09:43:03 -0700 (MST)
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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
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