Thanks Rich.

I thought that BSDWAIT was defined in one of the standard headers.

You are right about where BSDWAIT is defined, but now I am back to how
should I write the "ifdef" ?

I could use* !(defined(__ANDROID__) || (defined(__linux__)&&
!defined(__GLIBC__)))*  in the place of "if !defined(__ANDROID__)", but
then things might go wrong for uclibc and other libcs.

If I understand you correctly, all new implementations should use int
instead of union, so above ifdef should be a workable solution.

#if defined(_BSD) || (defined(IRIS4D) && __STDC__) || defined(__lucid) ||
defined(__linux__) || defined(__GNU__) || defined(__GLIBC__)
*# if !defined(__ANDROID__)*
#  define BSDWAIT
# endif
#endif /* _BSD || (IRIS4D && __STDC__) || __lucid || glibc */

Regards
Paul



On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 5:52 PM, Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx> wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 11:19:01AM +0200, Paul Schutte wrote:
> > Good day,
> >
> > I just want to know what would be right approach to fixing the compile
> > error in tcsh.
> >
> > I use the source code at
> ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/tcsh/tcsh-6.18.01.tar.gz
> >
> > I get the following error:
> > gcc -c -g -O2 -I. -I. -D_PATH_TCSHELL='"/usr/local/bin/tcsh"'
>  sh.proc.c
> > sh.proc.c: In function 'pchild':
> > sh.proc.c:155:16: error: storage size of 'w' isn't known
> > make: *** [sh.proc.o] Error 1
> >
> > Those lines are:
> >
> > #ifdef BSDWAIT
> >     union wait w;
> > #else /* !BSDWAIT */
> >     int     w;
> > #endif /* !BSDWAIT */
> >
> >
> > If I just use
> >
> > //#ifdef BSDWAIT
> > //    union wait w;
> > //#else /* !BSDWAIT */
> >     int     w;
> > //#endif /* !BSDWAIT */
> >
> > it compiles and works (for months now without an issue).
> >
> >
> > My question really is what should the proper "ifdef" be if I want to send
> > the fix to the tcsh maintainers ?
>
> Where is BSDWAIT defined? That's the location of the relevant ifdef.
> Using "union wait" on any Linux system, glibc ones included, is wrong;
> glibc just included gcc-specific hacks in the declaration of wait and
> waitpid to allow them to accept "union wait *" instead of "int *" if
> necessary. I suspect defined(__linux__) leads to #define BSDWAIT, in
> which case this should just be fixed.
>
> With that said, using "union wait" at all is nonsensical. As the
> standards require the argument to be int *, any modern BSD should work
> fine with int *. In case there are historical ones that prototype
> the functions with union wait *, it might work to simply declare "w"
> as int and cast it to (void *) when passing it to the functions.
>
> Rich
>