The idiom used to declare strerror() in lib/string.in.h does not cope with
the case of a missing strerror function (at least not in C++ mode). But
such platforms are likely older than 1998. Therefore I don't think they
are relevant any more.
2010-04-04 Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org>
strerror: Update documentation.
* doc/posix-functions/strerror.texi: Remove mention of old platforms.
--- doc/posix-functions/strerror.texi.orig Sun Apr 4 23:05:08 2010
+++ doc/posix-functions/strerror.texi Sun Apr 4 23:04:27 2010
@@ -9,8 +9,6 @@
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
@itemize
@item
-This function is missing on some old platforms.
-...@item
This function does not support the error values that are specified by POSIX
but not defined by the system, on some platforms:
OpenBSD 4.0, OSF/1 5.1, Cygwin 1.5.x, mingw.
