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From: jmck@norge.Eng.Sun.COM (John McKernan)
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Subject: Re: XView: bogus function prototypes in <xview/defaults.h>
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Date: 3 May 91 23:15:30 GMT
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gam@lanl.gov (Gim Mark) writes:
>A somewhat related problem is that DOTDOTDOT, which is defined in
><xview/xv_c_types.h> and used in many of Sun's EXTERN_FUNCTION
>prototypes, generates syntax errors in these prototypes under 
>ANSI C preprocessors (gnu gcc, Saber-C).

I believe this has been fixed, and will be included when the next
release ships. I don't think these fixes made it into the beta release
of Open Windows though. Note that the DOTDOTDOT macro is still used, it's
just used in a way that is correct according to ANSI C.

John McKernan.                                              jmck@sun.com
Windows and Graphics Software, XView Development Group, Sun Microsystems.