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Re: strsignal on cygwin


From: Bruno Haible
Subject: Re: strsignal on cygwin
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 02:21:07 +0200
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Eric Blake wrote:
> Why POSIX didn't make the return type const char* is beyond me.

Probably because the return type was already 'char *' on glibc systems,
MacOS X, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, AIX 5.1, Solaris. And 'const char *'
only on Cygwin.

Bruno





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