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Re: egcs 19990103 exits with error when hitting function that doesn'tdeclare return type?
- To: egcs at egcs dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: egcs 19990103 exits with error when hitting function that doesn'tdeclare return type?
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 14:03:19 +0100 (MET)
- cc: Charles Kerr <charles at skywalker dot ecn dot ou dot edu>, Joe Buck <jbuck at Synopsys dot COM>
On Mon, 4 Jan 1999, Joe Buck wrote:
> Generally speaking, fixincludes is supposed to fix invalid system headers
> (the original headers aren't modified, instead fixed copies of headers
> are placed where the compiler will see them first). I suppose the
> right thing would be to fix these headers to plug in a return type.
I guess one problem here is that many(?) people first first install a
good C compiler (i.e., egcs) and only then X11, built by that compiler.
In that case, fixincludes has no chance.
Gerald
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