Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 11:22:46AM +0100, Steve Hay wrote: >> But what do you mean by "correctly"? You seem to be meaning "what SUSv3 >> says", whereas I would have thought that "correct" for a given compiler >> is "whatever that compiler's headers say". >> >> You're right that it doesn't hurt (and doesn't warn) to apply the cast >> in the VC++ case, i.e. make them "correct" in the SUSv3 sense, but the >> cast is not required w.r.t. VC++'s own header files so it seems silly to >> do the cast. > >Ah, we've been talking past each other. > >I was trying to say (and still think) that if you have to use ifdefs, >the case singled out should be the one that doesn't follow standards >and doesn't work with the standards-correct code.
This Win32 - so which "standards" are you expecting to apply? After all this exec() doesn't acually do a POSIX exec ...
