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diff --git a/gnulib b/gnulib deleted file mode 160000 -Subproject 443bc5ffcf7429e557f4a371b0661abe98ddbc1 diff --git a/gnulib/doc/posix-headers/stdlib.texi b/gnulib/doc/posix-headers/stdlib.texi new file mode 100644 index 0000000..abe8d65 --- /dev/null +++ b/gnulib/doc/posix-headers/stdlib.texi @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +@node stdlib.h +@section @file{stdlib.h} + +POSIX specification:@* @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/stdlib.h.html} + +Gnulib module: stdlib, system-posix + +Portability problems fixed by the Gnulib module @code{stdlib}: +@itemize +@item +The macros @code{EXIT_SUCCESS} and @code{EXIT_FAILURE} are not defined on +some platforms. +@item +The macro @code{EXIT_FAILURE} is incorrectly defined on Tandem/NSK. + +@item +Some platforms provide a @code{NULL} macro that cannot be used in arbitrary +expressions: +NetBSD 5.0 +@end itemize + +Portability problems fixed by the Gnulib module @code{system-posix}: +@itemize +@item +The macros @code{WIFSIGNALED}, @code{WIFEXITED}, @code{WIFSTOPPED}, +@code{WTERMSIG}, @code{WEXITSTATUS}, @code{WNOHANG}, @code{WUNTRACED}, +@code{WSTOPSIG} are not defined in this header file (only in +@code{<sys/wait.h>}) on some platforms: +MirBSD 10. +@end itemize + +Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: +@itemize +@item +System status macros such as @code{WEXITSTATUS} require an lvalue +argument on some platforms. +MacOS X 10.5. +@end itemize |