Re: libtool & GCC 3.0

[Gary V . Vaughan]

On Friday 27 July 2001 6:00 pm, Robert Boehne wrote:
> Steve:
>
> The patch looks fine to me, does anyone else object to it?
> I would really like to know why anyone would declare main() as
> returning char, but there must have been some reason for it, right?
> Anybody know of such a reason? I'd like to hear it.

I seem to recall that there was some obscure gotcha to do with type promotion 
in C, but I can't find any information in the ChangeLogs or comments.  

> Steve Ellcey wrote:
> > 2001-07-25  Steve Ellcey  <address@hidden>
> >
> >         * libtool.m4 (lt_cv_sys_global_symbol_to_cdecl):  Change it from
> >         "extern char" to "extern int" so that GCC 3.0 won't complain and
> >         refuse to compile programs containing "extern char main()".

I guess we should apply this now, and if we get reports from users of some 
system that requires chars we can rethink that whole section of code.

Cheers,
        Gary.
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