Re: patch to clean up generic signum.h

[Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>]

Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.columbia.edu> writes:

|> On Mon, 2 Nov 1998 17:27:05 -0500, Roland McGrath wrote:
|> >I think it is not "compulsive" but broken to omit signal numbers under
|> >_POSIX_SOURCE.  A POSIX.1-compliant program must define _POSIX_SOURCE,
|> >and a well-written one would handle common non-POSIX signals by checking
|> >for them with #ifdef.  
|> 
|> The only things I put under __USE_MISC were the obsolete names SIGIOT
|> and SIGCLD.
|> 
|> I did condition the POSIX signals on __USE_POSIX, which will affect
|> programs compiled with -ansi and nothing else that look for other
|> signals.  If you think that's broken, it can be changed.

It is strictly ISO C compliant to define additional SIG[A-Z]* macros in
<signal.h>.  So IMHO there should be no feature tests at all in here.

Andreas.

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