Re: [PATCH] Port to 12 other Platforms.

On Sun, 8 Jun 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Honestly, I'd have to say that such platform header files are buggy ;-)

I agree, but getting various things changed is near impossible.  
Especially since they are either in a retired or unmaintained state.  
Although a few are still release updated products, they refuse to change 
them citeing backword compatibility.
 

If they want to use u_short and other custom types for their internal use,
that is understandable and perfectly fine, and if they want to hide these
names when _POSIX or _XOPEN is defined because you are not supposed to
contaminate the namespace, that is also sensible, but at the same time you
(not you, Boyd, but whoever developed the system header files) should have
taken an alternate measure (perhaps by using __u_short or something) not
to break the features they declare in the other header files of their own.

I agree +1

And not defining _XOPEN nor _POSIX would be a reasonable workaround to
the problem on such systems.

Agreed.

Thanks,

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