Re: prototype for getCDKSwindowContents conflicts with man page

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 02:38:57PM -0400, address@hidden wrote:
> 
> Man page for getCDKSwindowContents:
>    char **getCDKSwindowContents (CDKSWINDOW *swindow, int *lines);
> 
> Prototype in include/swindow.h:
>    chtype **getCDKSwindowContents (CDKSWINDOW *swindow, int *size);
> 
> Returning char ** is more sensible, since setCDKSwindowContents takes a
> char ** as the contents argument, but changing the return value could
> break existing code.  Personally I'm just going to code as if the man page 
> matched the prototype.

yes (beyond making some changes to eliminate fixed-size arrays, I've chosen
to add functions rather than change the interfaces).

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