ANSI header files for gcc?

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2 total messages Started by J.D. Baldwin Wed, 04 Nov 1992 13:26

#37

Author: J.D. Baldwin
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1992 13:26

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A quote from the INSTALL file for gcc 2.3.1:

   [Step] 13. Correct errors in the header files on your machine.

       Various system header files often contain constructs which are
       erroneous, incompatible with ANSI C or otherwise unsuitable, and
       they will not work when you compile programs with GNU CC.

             [. . .]

       It is not the purpose of `install-fixincludes' to add prototypes to
       the system header files.  We support headers with ANSI C
       prototypes in the GNU C Library, and we have no time to support
       adding them to other systems' header files.

What does this last paragraph mean?  "We support"?  I want ANSI header
files and I don't want to write them all myself from scratch.  If GNU
supports these things, then where can I get them?  I haven't been able
to find them on the usual sites.  And, once I find them, where do I
put them?  In /usr/local/lib/gcc-include?  In /usr/local/include?  This
hasn't caused me any problems (besides having to explain to my classes
that "it's just that way for now," which I hate), but I'd sure like
to be completely ANSI-fied.  After all, that's why I started with gcc
in the first place.
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 From the catapult of:              |+| "If anyone disagrees with anything I
   _,_  J. D. Baldwin, Comp Sci Dept|+| say, I am quite prepared not only to
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Re: ANSI header files for gcc?

#38

Author: J.D. Baldwin
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1992 19:43

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I wrote:
>What does this last paragraph mean?  "We support"?  I want ANSI header
>files and I don't want to write them all myself from scratch.  If GNU
>supports these things, then where can I get them?  

And carlton@husc.harvard.edu (david carlton) and
jbotz@orixa.mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz) let me know that exactly what
I am looking for may be found in

	prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/glibc-1.05.tar.Z

. . . a name I had seen, but woefully misinterpreted.

Thank you.
--
 From the catapult of:              |+| "If anyone disagrees with anything I
   _,_  J. D. Baldwin, Comp Sci Dept|+| say, I am quite prepared not only to
 _|70|___:::)=}-  U.S. Naval Academy|+| retract it, but also to deny under
 \      /   baldwin@usna.navy.mil   |+| oath that I ever said it." --T. Lehrer
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