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From: jimd@slip106.termserv.siu.edu (Jim Dutton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Resolved: /usr/include/unistd.h (V2.0.5) "dead2"
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 00:46:51 CST
Organization: Southern Illinois University
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Comment: AmigaNOS v2.9p
In-Reply-To: <4k9iir$2ac@anorak.coverform.lan>
	     (from brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers))
	     (at 8 Apr 1996 00:19:55 +0100)
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Hi Brian, on Apr 8 you wrote:

> Jim Dutton (jimd@dutton2.it.siu.edu) wrote:
> : What is the fix for the apparent misdeclartion in unisthd.h at
> : line 53 which looks like:
> 
> : 	 _exit __P((int)) __dead2;
> 
> This isn't a mis-decl under gcc (see sys/cdefs.h).  If you're using another
> compiler, modify sys/cdefs.h so that it has something like

Thanks for the reply. While trying to compile BIND 4.9.3p1 with gcc, I was
getting errors on the above declaration. When following someone else's
suggestion of removing BIND's supposed BSD compat/sysdefs.h file, the BIND
compile via GCC worked with no more errors (sigh).