Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:57:37 -0400 From: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@crodrigues.org> To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Proposal to restore traditional BSD behavior in <strings.h>. Message-ID: <20041016175737.GA79623@crodrigues.org> In-Reply-To: <20041016174419.GA96297@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <20041016174419.GA96297@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 10:44:19AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > I'd like to restore the traditional BSD behavior that <strings.h> > includes the content of <string.h> in addition to the BSD bcmp, et. al. > We changed our <strings.h> between 4.x and 5.x and now that we're at > 5-STABLE I'm finding software that built fine on 4.x has an issue on 5.x. What do the standards@ people have to say about this? I don't see anything in the Single Unix Specification which would prohibit this: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/basedefs/strings.h.html but I am not good at interpreting standards. -- Craig Rodrigues http://crodrigues.org rodrigc@crodrigues.org
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