Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: CONST, VOIDSTAR etc
Message-ID: <1989Jul18.161350.16802@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <2887@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 89 16:13:50 GMT

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?

Unless other people have picked up some of my bad habits :-), the only
place those are used is in my string functions, with definitions supplied
by my header file.

At some point I will produce a revised version of my functions to match the
final X3J11 draft.  I will probably try to do something a bit more elegant
about CONST et al.
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