Re: ncurses-5.2-20020420.patch.gz

[Mike Castle]

In article <address@hidden>,
Thomas Dickey  <address@hidden> wrote:
>yes - I ran into the same problem this afternoon.  gawk thinks that 'func'
>is a reserved word.  I renamed 'func' to 'myfunc' and it compiled ok.

Alrighty.  I don't feel like rebuilding right now.  I'll wait till next
week's patch.

Meanwhile, this bit from the gawk manual seems to imply that gawk wouldn't
be the only implementation to be bit by this:

   In many `awk' implementations, including `gawk', the keyword
`function' may be abbreviated `func'.


Cheers,
mrc
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