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Re: Make string.h strsignal prototype return const char *
- From: Hans-Peter Nilsson <hans-peter dot nilsson at axis dot com>
- To: jjohnstn at redhat dot com
- Cc: hans-peter dot nilsson at axis dot com, newlib at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 20:21:00 +0100
- Subject: Re: Make string.h strsignal prototype return const char *
> Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 13:52:22 -0500
> From: Jeff Johnston <jjohnstn@redhat.com>
> An alternative to your solution would be to move the strsignal declaration out
> of string.h and into a new libc/sys/linux/sys/string.h. Have string.h #include
> <sys/string.h>. In libc/include/sys/string.h have a placeholder comment. With
> the exception of sys/config.h I'm not too keen on having linux-only stuff in
> shared header files, especially since libc/sys/linux overrides many headers
> already to avoid this mess.
That does seem like a cleaner solution.
> If I put this together, would you be willing to try it out?
Sure!
brgds, H-P