Re: Build bug in Binutils 2.11?

[Hans-Bernhard Broeker]

Karl Bolingbroke <address@hidden> wrote:
> I've run across what may be a bug in the configure/build
> phase of Binutils 2.11 on HP-UX 11.00 with GCC 3.0.

> The file "include/libiberty.h" uses the type 'size_t'.  This
> type is supposed to be derived from the file <stddef.h>, but
> <stddef.h> doesn't seem to be defining it.  

That would be major bug in HP's <stddef.h>, then. ANSI C requires
<stddef.h> to define size_t. The bug would indeed be so gross that I
have my doubts this can really be the case --- not even HP can be that
ignorant of a standard that has been in use for over 12 years, now.


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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (address@hidden)
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