"R. Lindsay Todd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| It looks like AIX has a C++ stdlib.h file that defines bzero, as
| well as other
| stdlib.h functions. This #undefs bzero before specifying the prototype.
| Would it harm anything to have configure look for stdlib.h, and #include
| that in spellchecker.C if it exists? I wouldn't expect it to.
|
| Looking at the OpenGroup spec's, bzero is supposed to be defined in
| strings.h (yes, strings, not string). But then again, FD_ZERO should
| only require sys/time.h. Which suggests the AIX behaviour is not
| standards-conforming. But of course, the spec's are for ANSI C, not
| C++. So who knows what the behaviour should be...
The problem is that select and FD_ZERO (etc.) are not ANSI C they are
BSD or POSIX (or other).
the same goes for bzero and memset.
| Maybe the right solution is to see which of these header files are needed
| to make FD_ZERO work: sys/time.h, stdlib.h, strings.h. (After all, it is
| FD_ZERO we want, not bzero.) Since the set of header files you are
| already using is working for most systems, this ought to do the trick.
| This could be done in configure.
Should be cone in configure.
Lgb
