From: "Andrej Borsenkow" <Andrej.Borsenkow@mow.siemens.ru>
To: "ZSH Workers Mailing List" <zsh-workers@sunsite.dk>
Subject: RE: S_IXUSR & Co macro problem - zsh does not compile under current cygwin.
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 12:52:04 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <000001c0cfc0$7f786140$21c9ca95@mow.siemens.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1010427174629.ZM27048@candle.brasslantern.com>
>
> On Apr 27, 12:27pm, Andrej Borsenkow wrote:
> }
> } #if defined (__CYGWIN__) && !defined (__INSIDE_CYGWIN__)
> } extern unsigned const _cygwin_S_IEXEC, _cygwin_S_IXUSR,
> _cygwin_S_IXGRP, _cygwin_S_IXOTH;
>
> Do we need to fix this in zsh, or do you think it'll be treated as a bug
> by the cygwin folks?
>
If I understand the following correctly , it was deliberate change:
>SUS does not clear specify if these macros should be #defines. But, is it
>necessary to make them external variables? const is real const in C++ but not
>in C, sigh.
Nope, not necessary at all.
This is just part of a massive "Arbitrarily make everything a global variable"
campaign. Phase two will be to have Cygwin prompt you for the values of
the variables whenever you want to use them.
-andrej
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-04-28 8:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-04-27 8:27 Andrej Borsenkow
2001-04-27 17:46 ` Bart Schaefer
2001-04-28 8:52 ` Andrej Borsenkow [this message]
2001-04-28 18:18 ` Bart Schaefer
2001-04-30 10:42 ` Andrej Borsenkow
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