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Re: libiberty/strsignal.c decl breaks with old Cygwin tool-chains
- To: law at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: libiberty/strsignal.c decl breaks with old Cygwin tool-chains
- From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- Date: 07 Sep 2000 00:44:36 -0300
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Organization: GCC Team, Red Hat
- References: <4178.968295539@upchuck>
On Sep 6, 2000, Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com> wrote:
>> * strsignal.c (strsignal): Remove the `const' from the return
>> value when building with old Cygwin tool-chains.
> Hmmm, where is the bogus prototype for strsignal coming from?
Installed Cygwin headers.
> I doubt it's coming from GCC itself, which makes me thing that
> testing for a particular version of GCC is the wrong thing to do.
True. Fortunately, DJ already installed a proper fix.
> In fact, it seems to me that we should be checking for the bogon
> using autoconf.
Indeed, that would have been better.
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