Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 22:31:14 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Cc: ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com (Thomas David Rivers) Subject: Re: netdb.h and -traditional... Message-ID: <199608162031.WAA07148@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199608161308.JAA00494@lakes.water.net> from Thomas David Rivers at "Aug 16, 96 09:08:44 am"
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As Thomas David Rivers wrote: > While building some older (non-ANSI) sources with the -traditional > flag, I ran into the following (on 2.1.5) on line 139 of netdb.h: > > const char *hstrerror __P((int)); > > which, of course, breaks because 'const' is ANSI. It is, of course :), supposed to work, since <sys/cdefs.h> #define's const to nothing when working on a non-ANSI compiler. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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