Re: 01-getnline.diff (was Re: [Bug-gnulib] getline & getline_safe)

[Derek Robert Price]

Steve McIntyre wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 03:56:33PM -0400, Derek Robert Price wrote:
>  
>
> > Incidentally, my glibc defines both getdelim & getline to return 
> > ssize_t.  Is it intentional that the GNULIB versions return int instead?
> >    
>
> Actually, that was exactly the cause of the original bug! ssize_t and
> int are equivalent on most 32-bit platforms, but not on 64-bit
> Linux. Thus the definition of getline() clashes and does not match the
> one included from stdio.h...
>  

But what I checked in still should have fixed things.  The offending 
prototypes now won't be included unless the functions do not exist on 
the system, so the fact that they have different signatures will be 
irrelevant.

Derek

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