Re: diffutils 2.8.1 ISO C90 compliance patch

[Andreas Schwab]

"Paul Edwards" <address@hidden> writes:

> There's nowhere to put a sys/types.h or lib/sys/types.h.  It is
> a non-standard include and should not be used.  string.h is a
> standard include and can be used without #ifdefs.  But not
> sys/types.h.  It should be excluded by default.  It is non-standard
> and doesn't exist on MVS and can't exist on MVS.  It's not MVS
> that is non-compliant, it is programs that include sys/types.h that
> are non-compliant.

In the Unix world <sys/types.h> is actually more portable than <string.h>.
Go figure. :-)

Andreas.

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