Danny Smith wrote: > > --- Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at > 03:39:38PM +0300, egor duda wrote: > > > > I can't believe that I've woken up to a huge thread about this trivial > > issue. > > > > Can't we just rename strings.h to string.h in setup sources? What's the > > big frigging deal here? > > > > Why does every thread that touches setup.exe have to be so torturous? > > > > cgf > > I've just thought of a new email virus, One starts a discussion about some > trivial issue on three developer lists simultaneously (it's best to pick > lists that like to be pedantic). Soon the whole world grinds to a stop. > > Apart from above, I have no concerns with a do-nothing strings.h. Please, > however, refrain from adding in sys/params.h, sys/resource.h, termio.h, > etc. The ACT distro of mingw did that and it means that much code written > for the ACT version (including the code needed to build the gnat compiler) > needs surgery to get rid of unprotected #include <sys/params.h>, etc that > aren't really needed on mingw after all. >
I only agreed to add strings.h because strcasecmp was an add-on (not in MSVCRT.DLL or CRTDLL.DLL) and the documentation for it says it belongs in strings.h. I agree that this should not be a precedent that is used to decide to add others. Earnie. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
