Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 09:39:38 -0800 (PST) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: daren@partners-dsi.com Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: struct in sigaltstack wrong?? Message-ID: <199902051739.JAA22573@vashon.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <010c01be508f$f2497b80$ca98f026@partnersdsi.com>
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In article <010c01be508f$f2497b80$ca98f026@partnersdsi.com>,
Daren R. Sefcik <daren@partners-dsi.com> wrote:
> While trying to compile the FWTK
> it would fail everytime at the /usr/include/sys/signal.h
> line 163 with:
>
> cc -O -pipe -I.. -D_SKEY_INTERNAL -c daemon.c
> In file included from daemon.c:14:
> /usr/include/sys/signal.h:163: parse error before `size_t'
> /usr/include/sys/signal.h:163: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or
> union
> /usr/include/sys/signal.h:165: parse error before `}'
> *** Error code 1
>
> from the signal.h file line 163:
>
> /*
> * Structure used in sigaltstack call.
> */
> struct sigaltstack {
> char *ss_sp; /* signal stack base */
> size_t ss_size; /* signal stack length */
> int ss_flags; /* SS_DISABLE and/or SS_ONSTACK */
>
>
>
> looking at the man page for sigaltstack it uses char & long & int
> I changed the size_t to long and the compile finished fine.
> Is the signal.h file wrong or is the FWTK wrong???
The work-around is to change FWTK to include <stddef.h> first. But
that shouldn't be necessary. I'd say the bug is in <signal.h> (or
<sys/signal.h>, which it includes). To be standard conforming, the
<signal.h> header file should be self-sufficient.
Probably <sys/signal.h> should use _BSD_SIZE_T_ from <machine/ansi.h>
if it is defined, to keep from polluting the application's namespace
with size_t. Bruce probably has a better answer.
John
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