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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!chi-news.cic.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: PVM and FreeBSD Date: 12 Nov 1995 16:27:50 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4853pm$kgd@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <47vvt0$ups@columba.udac.uu.se> <481r7u$1a9@fu-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.parallel.pvm:4087 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:8537 Thomas Graichen <graichen@julia.physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: >it's the typical FreeBSD (i think 4.4 lite) error if you port something to >FreeBSD No, it's the typical error of all those nifty packages to declare sys_errlist[] unconditionally. The actual declaration for it has been lurking around in <stdio.h> long before, but people did only start noticing it when 4.4BSD (correctly!) converted the declaration to a `const' one. Thou shalst not declare system interfaces in thy program (unless the system headers are broken). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)