Re: gettext and C usage

[Bruno Haible]

Paul Eggert writes:

> A Google search reports that some fairly recent non-GNU operating
> systems (HP-UX 11 and Solaris 7) have a locale.h that doesn't work
> with some GCC installations.  Please see:
> 
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/bug-gnu-utils/2001-11/msg00065.html

This one also says "checking for stdlib.h... no". So it's definitely
a broken GCC installation.

> http://www.optix.org/~dxy/solaris/gnome-libs/1.2.13/CONFIG_LOG

Don't know what's happening here, but Solaris 2.7 definitely has
locale.h as well.

> Personally, I no longer bother to test for the following headers,
> which have been required for a dozen years by the C standard even for
> freestanding implementations:
> 
> <float.h> <limits.h> <stdarg.h> <stddef.h>

I agree for <float.h> <limits.h> <stddef.h>. But <stdarg.h> is lacking
on SunOS 4.1.4 with cc. You need varargs on this platform; but at
least you can write

int
asprintf (result, format, va_alist)
     char **result;
     const char *format;
     va_dcl
{

on this platform; no need to go back to old-old K&R C

int
asprintf (va_alist)
     va_dcl
{
  va_list ap;
  char **result;
  const char *format;
  va_start(ap);
  result = va_arg(ap,char **);
  format = va_arg(ap,const char *);


Bruno