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changeset 10220:1ccb0de40324
Work around cygwin 1.5.25 strsignal bug.
* tests/test-strsignal.c: Allow for const char *.
* doc/glibc-functions/strsignal.texi (strsignal): Document the bug.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
author | Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net> |
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date | Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:50:06 -0600 |
parents | b53286e3c750 |
children | 8c0d36d59e97 |
files | ChangeLog doc/glibc-functions/strsignal.texi tests/test-strsignal.c |
diffstat | 3 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2008-06-18 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net> + + Work around cygwin 1.5.25 strsignal bug. + * tests/test-strsignal.c: Allow for const char *. + * doc/glibc-functions/strsignal.texi (strsignal): Document the bug. + 2008-06-18 Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> * users.txt: Update URL to article and add author/date
--- a/doc/glibc-functions/strsignal.texi +++ b/doc/glibc-functions/strsignal.texi @@ -2,15 +2,23 @@ @subsection @code{strsignal} @findex strsignal -Gnulib module: --- +Gnulib module: strsignal Portability problems fixed by Gnulib: @itemize +@item +This function is missing on some platforms: +AIX 4.3.2, HP-UX 11, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, mingw. + +@item +This function does not return a string for out-of-range numbers on +some platforms: +Solaris, AIX 5.1. @end itemize Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: @itemize -@item -This function is missing on some platforms: -AIX 4.3.2, HP-UX 11, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, mingw. +This function returns @code{const char *} instead of @code{char *} on +some platforms: +cygwin 1.5.25. @end itemize
--- a/tests/test-strsignal.c +++ b/tests/test-strsignal.c @@ -46,7 +46,11 @@ int main (int argc, char **argv) { - char *str; + /* Work around bug in cygwin 1.5.25 <string.h> by declaring str as + const char *, even though strsignal is supposed to return char *. + At any rate, this doesn't hurt, since POSIX 200x states that "The + string pointed to shall not be modified by the application." */ + const char *str; /* We try a couple of signals, since not all signals are supported everywhere. Notwithstanding the #ifdef for neatness, SIGINT should in