gcc's ANSI include files

[Michael Meissner]

In article <1991Feb5.171322.8769 at ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
klg0582 at uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Ken-Huang Lin) writes:

| We installed gcc 1.37.1 on Vax station II and DEC station 3100 running
| Ultrix 3.1 recently. The compiler doesn't recognize ANSI standard
| include file "stdlib.h", nor does it have the standard string function
| "strstr". The error messages are:
|   stdlib.h: No such file or directory
| for the former, and
|   Undefined:
|   _strstr
| for the latter, even when I add "-ansi" option in the compiling.
| 
| Any help would be much appreciated,
|  
| Ken H. Lin
| khlin at uiwpl.ece.uiuc.edu

Umm, GCC does not supply a complete ANSI library system, it relies on
the vendor libraries and include files (there are two levels to being
ANSI standard -- with and without a library).  Revision 4.0 started
supplying standard headers, but blew it in terms of what actually went
in the headers (the const keyword in particular was missing in several
of the headers).  It looks like most of the problems are fixed in 4.1,
though sys/file.h still contains the bogus line:

	#ifdef KERNEL && !defined(_POSIX_SOURCE)

So the answer is rev-up your OS, and complain to DEC if it doesn't
meet the standard.....
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