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Re: sys_errlist (Re: gcc (Re: porting?))

To: Mikko Larjava <mitala@nic.funet.fi>
Subject: Re: sys_errlist (Re: gcc (Re: porting?))
From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
Date: 11 Feb 1998 12:24:38 +0100
Cc: Yves Pelletier <ypell@cam.org>, MiNT mailing list <mint@atari.archive.umich.edu>
In-reply-to: Mikko Larjava's message of Wed, 11 Feb 1998 12:17:27 +0200 (EET)
References: <Pine.OSF.3.91.980211120706.20744A-100000@nic.funet.fi>
Sender: schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de

Mikko Larjava <mitala@nic.funet.fi> writes:

|> Is the 
|> array really needed to be global or could it just be static inside 
|> strerror.c? The point of having both strerror() and the array is not 
|> clear for me. 

sys_errlist is needed for compatibility with BSD, but obsoleted by
strerror().  Note that SunOS4 doesn't have strerror.

-- 
Andreas Schwab                                      "And now for something
schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de              completely different"
schwab@gnu.org

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- Re: sys_errlist (Re: gcc (Re: porting?))
  - From: Mikko Larjava <mitala@nic.funet.fi>

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