Re: Accepting IRIX 5.2's old-style getpwuid_r

[Tom Tromey <tromey@cygnus.com>]

>>>>> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <oliva@dcc.unicamp.br> writes:

Alexandre> Function overloading worked beautifully.  We can even
Alexandre> remove some other similar tests from configure.in, since
Alexandre> the overload-resolution-based ones are much more reliable.

I don't even understand this solution.
I guess it is time for me to read a C++ bookagain. :-(

Alexandre> Tell me what you think about this solution.  I myself found
Alexandre> it quite ugly, but it's probably worth the ugliness.

If this is standard C++ then I actually find it quite elegant.


As a nit I note your patch is missing spaces in a few places.  In most
cases a space is required before an open paren.

T