Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: C News vs. Xenix
Message-ID: <1990Dec28.071117.28485@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Dec16.234811.6293@zoo.toronto.edu> <580@camco.Celestial.COM>
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 90 07:11:17 GMT

In article <580@camco.Celestial.COM> news@camco.Celestial.COM (Bill Campbell) writes:
>The xenix include file string.h has an extraneous reference to
>strerror().  I just removed this and fixed that problem.

In fact, I'm told that the Xenix string.h strerror() definition is *almost*
correct... but whatever lunkhead wrote it put a semicolon on the end of the
#define!  This is more or less harmless until you come to use strerror() in
a complicated expression or a declaration, which may be why they didn't spot
it.  (A less charitable possibility would be that they didn't test it at all,
but it being the holidays, let's be charitable. :-))
-- 
"The average pointer, statistically,    |Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
points somewhere in X." -Hugh Redelmeier| henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry