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From: bright@sctc.com (Dave Bright)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: compile errors with /usr/include/sys/types.h
Message-ID: <1990Mar5.150312.15889@sctc.com>
Date: 5 Mar 90 15:03:12 GMT
References: <1990Mar1.022620.23226@ice9.uucp>
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bgh@ice9.uucp (barry hannigan) writes:

>the following lines are excerpted from /usr/include/sys/types.h in ISC 2.0.2

>typedef	struct { int r[1]; }	*	physadr;
>typedef	char	*		caddr_t;	/* ?<core address> type */
>typedef	char *		faddr_t;	/* same as caddr_t for 8086/386 */

>they cause syntax errors when used.
>the program being compiled is Xloadimage, patchlevel 3.
>any ideas?

Since I've run into this while compiling several X clients under ESIX, I
thought it worthwhile to post a response.  The problem is that one of the
X11 include files (I don't recall which) includes sys/types.h.  When the
program includes sys/types.h explicitly, the typedefs die due to redefinition.
My solution so far has been to just comment out the include in the program,
but I've been thinking of modifying the include file to allow multiple
inclusions; this might save time in the long run.
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