Re: [PATCH RFC] CYGWIN: avoid implicit declaration warning

> On 23/11/14 18:53, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk> writes:
>>
>>> On 23/11/14 14:16, Torsten Bögershausen wrote:
>>>> gcc under cygwin reports several warnings like this:
>>>>  warning: implicit declaration of function 'memmem'
>>>>   [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
>>>> This has been observed under CYGWIN-32 with GCC 4.7.3 as well
>>>> as CYGWIN-64 with gcc v4.8.3-5 x86-64
>>>
>>> Heh, thanks for looking into this. Your email came at a good time,
>>> since I was just about to boot my old laptop into windows XP to
>>> test my patch on 32-bit cygwin! (If I had not been watching the
>>> F1 Grand Prix on TV, I would already have done so! ;-) ).
>>>
>>> It's been a while since I updated my 32-bit cygwin installation
>>> (about 6 months) but I'm a little surprised you found this issue
>>> with gcc 4.7.3 (I'm _almost_ tempted to boot that laptop anyway
>>> just to see what versions of software it is running).
>>
>> So you have an old installation to check how well the patched
>> version is accepted by the old set of header files?
> 
> ... I can, indeed, use this old installation to test this on
> 32-bit cygwin. sigh, I thought I had dodged that bullet! ;-)
>