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From: mike@stolaf.UUCP (Mike Haertel)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Secure 'C' library - string I/O (Re: retiring gets(3))
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Date: 13 Nov 88 00:16:30 GMT
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In article <14486@mimsy.UUCP> chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
>(The `_PROTO_(x)' macro expands to `x' if __STDC__, else to `'.)  [The
>prototypes in our <stdio.h> wreak minor havoc with GCC.  GCC needs more
>type-correctness internally.]

Have you reported this directly to RMS (bug-gcc@prep.ai.mit.edu)?
If you do (and better, if you send him a fix) he will most likely act
on it within the week.  (My experience this summer was that he fixed
bugs the same day I complained about them . . .)

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Mike Haertel
Really mike@stolaf.UUCP, but I read mail at mike@wheaties.ai.mit.edu.