On May 11 20:48, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > Apparently cygwin has exported initstate and setstate for over ten years > (see winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog-1997), but I can't find a header definition > for it in 1.5.25-11. POSIX requires these to be declared in <stdlib.h>.
stdlib.h is a newlib file. You could just send a patch to the newlib mailing list. > Also, the signatures seem to differ slightly. winsup/cygwin/random.cc > declares these as: > > char *initstate(unsigned long seed, char *arg_state, long n); > char *setstate(char *state); > > but POSIX requires: > > char *initstate(unsigned seed, char *state, size_t size); > char *setstate(const char *state); > > Could someone please clarify? I'll align the Cygwin functions with POSIX. Thanks for the report, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
