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From: hinton@netcom.UUCP (Greg Hinton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: CONST, VOIDSTAR etc
Summary: used by 1.4a string functions
Message-ID: <1807@netcom.UUCP>
Date: 17 Jul 89 02:51:39 GMT
References: <2887@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Reply-To: hinton@netcom.UUCP (Greg Hinton)
Organization: NetCom -- San Jose, CA
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In article <2887@ast.cs.vu.nl> ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes:
>
>It has been brought to my attention (by the C compiler) that quite a few
>library routines contain CONST, VOIDSTAR, SIZET etc.  Are these part of the
>ANSI C standard?  Are they supposed to be defined in some header file?
>Should I delete them all?  
>
>Andy Tanenbaum

These are in Henry Spencer's ANSI string functions which were included with
version 1.4a.  It's an attempt to increase portability & is explained in
the file string.h.proto.  I personally added the following #define's to that
file & renamed it to /usr/include/string.h:

#define CONST		/* const not supported by compiler */
#define SIZET       int
#define VOIDSTAR    char *

Andy, does this flurry of recompilation foreshadow an imminent posting of
"goodies" to the net?


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