On Thu, 25 Sep 1997 mika@cs.caltech.edu wrote:

: This is what I have in <errno.h>/<sys/errno.h>:
: 
: #if !defined(_ANSI_SOURCE) && !defined(_POSIX_SOURCE)
: extern int sys_nerr;
: extern const char *const sys_errlist[];
: #endif
: #endif
: 
: The most -current I have available adds a check for XPG3, but is 
: otherwise the same.  My problem is that I am compiling some rather 
: crufty K&R code---thus am using cc -traditional.  "const" is not
: legal K&R C, so the compilation aborts on this declaration.  This
: has been solved in FreeBSD by replacing the const's with __const's
: where __const is #defined as const if __STDC__ or cplusplus.

You should have no problems by replacing const with __const, and I've
actually submitted a PR for you that does just this, so it should be done by
1.3.  The macro __const is defined similar to what you are saying in the
file <sys/cdefs.h>, already included by errno.h.

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