In message <199412140549.XAA03486@nirvana.good.com>, "Mark P. Gooderum" writes:
> 
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> 
> HAVE_LSEEK
> NEED_LSEEK_PROTOTYPE
> LSEEK_OFFSET_ARG_TYPE
> LSEEEK_IN_OSFCNS_H
> 
> Autoconf would have simple standard compile tests for most of these defines,
> the 3rd define might be generated by a run time test.
> The referencing code would then reference lseek by saying:
> 
> #ifdef HAVE_LSEEK
> #  ifdef NEED_LSEEK_PROTOTYPE
> LSEEK_OFFSET_ARG_TYPE lseek(int fd, LSEEK_OFFSET_ARG_TYPE off, int whence);
> #  else
> #    ifdef LSEEK_IN_UNISTD_H
> #      include <unistd.h>
> #    else if defined(LSEEK_IN_OSFCNS_H)
> #      include <osfcns.h>
> #    else
> #      define x(y	/* puke and die, more portable than #error */
> #    endif
> #  endif
> #else
> 	/* deal with it, define lseek(), whatever */
> #endif
> 

Yuk!  I don't care what people say, but *THAT* is hideous!  Nothing against
the original poster...

--Toby.
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