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Re: strsignal on cygwin
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Eric Blake |
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Re: strsignal on cygwin |
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Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:27:19 -0600 |
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According to Bruno Haible on 6/18/2008 6:21 PM:
| Eric Blake wrote:
|> Why POSIX didn't make the return type const char* is beyond me.
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| Probably because the return type was already 'char *' on glibc systems,
| MacOS X, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, AIX 5.1, Solaris. And 'const char *'
| only on Cygwin.
It turns out libiberty (built as part of gcc and gdb) uses 'const char *',
too.
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Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake address@hidden
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