strsignal

Ulrich Drepper drepper@cygnus.com
Thu Sep 24 10:45:00 GMT 1998


Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> writes:

> Is strsignal described in any Unix standard?

Not as far as I know.

> Solaris has it (if __EXTENSIONS__ is defind), so it isn't GNU-only
> any more.  I think the feature guard in <string.h> should be
> updated.

I don't think so.  We use _GNU_SOURCE for all extensions which are not
covered by standards or traditions.  Think of _GNU_SOURCE as something
equivalent to __EXTENSIONS__ in Solaris.

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