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Juergen Weigert wrote:
> I'd assume the intent was not a redefinition, but a first initial
> declaration. With NEWSOS and __hpux being among the few systems 
> that cared to ship a declaration of strlen in their header files at all.
> 
> It went unnoticed all the years, as int and size_t are pretty compatible 
> on most systems -- at least for the actual sizes strings happen to have 
> in screen.
> I'd recommend to treat it the same as K&R prototypes: historical baggage.

Great, thanks very much!

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Micah J. Cowan
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GNU Maintainer: wget, screen, teseq
http://micah.cowan.name/
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