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From: ronald@robobar.co.uk (Ronald S H Khoo)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: C News vs. Xenix
Message-ID: <1990Dec18.122859.18090@robobar.co.uk>
Date: 18 Dec 90 12:28:59 GMT
References: <1990Dec16.234811.6293@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: Robobar Ltd., Perivale, Middx., ENGLAND.
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henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:

> As of the latest patch, we're seeing reports that compiling C News under
> Xenix leads to peculiar errors of the form:
> 
> > warning.c(19) : error C2143: syntax error : missing ';' before 'storage class'
> 
> My tentative diagnosis is "your supplier may claim that your <string.h> is
> ANSI-conforming, but it isn't".

as in

/usr/include/string.h:/* #define strerror(err)	( sys_errlist[err] ); */

possibly ?  Can you guess why mine's commented out ? :-)
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