Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes about the failure of
<sys/types.h> in the Linux Standards Base to define size_t.
>> ...
>> "Nelson H. F. Beebe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> > This is the same problem as before with size_t being used before
>> > it is defined with this compiler.
>>
>> <stdio_ext.h> is one thing; it's not standardized. But <sys/types.h>
>> is another. The compiler is seriously broken if <sys/types.h> does
>> not define size_t.
>>
>> As I recall, the last mainstream POSIX-like operating system that
>> didn't have size_t in <sys/types.h> was 4.3BSD-Reno (circa 1990), a
>> system so old that we haven't supported it for ages. POSIX has
>> required <sys/types.h> to define size_t for quite some time.
>>
>> Jim indicated that he'd rather not worry about implementations that
>> are this far out of the mainstream. Can you please fix this with the
>> LSB compiler, or get it fixed?
>> ...
Here is the relevant section of POSIX (IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (Revision
of IEEE Std 1003.1-1996 and IEEE Std 1003.2-1992) that confirms Paul's
statement:
>> ...
>> 12927 NAME
>> 12928 sys/types.h -- data types
>>
>> 12929 SYNOPSIS
>> 12930 #include <sys/types.h>
>>
>> 12931 DESCRIPTION
>> 12932 The <sys/types.h> header shall include definitions for at
>> least the following types:
>>
>> ...
>>
>> 12963 size_t Used for sizes of
>> objects.
>> ...
Neither ISO C89 nor ISO C99 Standards mention any header files in the
<sys/*.h> location.
This lack-of-definition failure is readily exhibited:
% cat bug-lsbcc.c
#include <sys/types.h>
size_t p;
% lsbcc -c bug-lsbcc.c
bug-lsbcc.c:2: error: syntax error before "p"
bug-lsbcc.c:2: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
I signed up on the LSB discussion list this morning
http://lists.freestandards.org/mailman/listinfo/lsb-discuss
to see if has been discussed there I have also since done a Web
search, which turned up a report of the same problem from 2003-07-18
14:16:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=773937&group_id=1107&atid=101107
Given that three years have passed since that bug report, no bug
resolution is recorded, and my LSB compilers are new and dated
2006-05-25, I doubt that another problem report would have any effect.
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