[Bug] __wait_status_to_int() is expected to be a macro

[Eric Blake]

On 08/24/2018 04:06 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:

>> Apologies for reviving an old thread, but I ran into the same problem today.
>> Is there any chance we could have a macro-only '__wait_status_to_int' in
>> Cygwin 2.11.0, please?
> 
> Here's the glibc approach:
> 
> https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=b49ab5f4503f36dcbf43f821f817da66b2931fe6
> 
> So glibc/Linux doesn't provide `union wait' at all since 2016.
> 
> I'm inclined to do the same.  Thoughts?

Makes sense to me. It's a non-portable type, and if glibc is no longer 
providing union wait and no one is complaining about their stuff not 
compiling there, then it's hard to argue what Cygwin apps need the type 
to stick around.

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