Re: strsignal() declaration in lin-lwp.c?

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>]

On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 02:43:32PM -0700, Kevin Buettner wrote:
> I've just run into a problem in which the definition of strsignal() in
> lin-lwp.c conflicts with the definition in <string.h>.  Here's the
> declaration in lin-lwp.c:
> 
>     extern const char *strsignal (int sig);
> 
> And here's what it looks like in <string.h>:
> 
>     extern char *strsignal (int __sig) __THROW;
> 
> The fact that the lin-lwp.c version has a ``const'' is the problem.
> 
> Could we remove the ``const'' from the lin-lwp.c declaration?
> 
> It seems that we can't remove the declaration entirely because
> the declaration that I'm seeing in the header file won't be used
> if __USE_GNU is undefined.

I'd say we could remove the const - or just use -D_GNU_SOURCE...
Glibc 2.3.1 has it without const, and so does 2.2.5.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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