Re: bison-20001221

[Hans Aberg]

At 14:14 +0100 1-01-15, Akim Demaille wrote:
>I'd be happy to understand how on a Mac you can determine that
>including sys/types.h is unnecessary, if it's so much platform
>dependent :)

I do not remember; it could be that the headers needed already were
included. Somebody at GNU seems to put in extra headers just in case. :-)

>But the point is, there are very few headers which are available
>*everywhere*, and *no single GNU program* ever checks for them:
>stdio.h, sys/types, and sys/stat.h.  Considering the effort it would
>take the free software to adjust itself to your environment, if I were
>you I'd create sys/types, and have it include the very very very much
>more system dependent size_t.h (or I don't remember how it's named).

If the compiler with ISO/ANSI C, size_t is defined in stdio.h. So the
system dependency is on those platforms where ISO/ANSI C isn't available.

  Hans Aberg