>Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 02:25:47 -0800 (PST)
>From: John M Vinopal <banshee@gabriella.resort.com>

>Could someone explain more about __attribute__ or whichever of the
>parts of the new syslog.h line 186 cause problems with the std gcc
>compiler?  

christos checked in a fix for this file yesterday.

>Is there some way to avoid this problem?  I use a compiler in addition
>to the netbsd stock compiler and the idea of needing to periodically
>update it or add #ifdefs to include files makes me unhappy.

#ifndef __GNUC__ then __attribute__() should expand to nothing.  See
<sys/cdefs.h>.

If your other compiler is also GCC, then I think that code that can't
be compiled with a stock gcc should *not* be present in any NetBSD
headers, unless an #ifdef specific to NetBSD's gcc is wrapped around
it.
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