libsigsegv packaging problem

[Reini Urban]

2011/5/3 Corinna Vinschen:
> I have a problem with the libsigsegv package.  Right now the gawk
> maintainer started the testing cycle for the next gawk release, and the
> second time now the sigsegv.h header broke the build.
>
> The reason for the breakage is the same each time, sigsegv.h includes
> windows.h and thus clutters the namespace with stuff unexpected by a
> POSIX application:

You are right. I'll try it out.

> - The first time it was the definition of "WCHAR".
>
> - The second time it was the definition of "small"i, which, believe it
>  or not, is defined as datatype in .
>
> - And there's still the definition of "min", which fortunately only
>  produces a warning.
>
> AFAICS the only reason to include windows.h is to get the definition of
> the CONTEXT type which in turn is used to typedef stackoverflow_context_t.
>
> Is it really necessary to expose this to the application?  Wouldn't it
> be better to define stackoverflow_context_t to void * for applications?
> THus we can drop the unfortunate inclusion of windows.h and not clutter
> the POSIX namespace with Windows definitions.

Bruno will disapprove but for the cygwin port alone I can live with
that workaround.
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Reini Urban
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