GNU bug report logs - #9960
Compiling Emacs trunk with MSVC

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Message #29 received at 9960 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Óscar Fuentes <ofv <at> wanadoo.es>
Cc: cschol2112 <at> googlemail.com, fabrice.popineau <at> supelec.fr,
	9960 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#9960: Compiling Emacs trunk with MSVC
Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2011 18:10:38 +0200

> From: Óscar Fuentes <ofv <at> wanadoo.es>
> Cc: cschol2112 <at> googlemail.com,  fabrice.popineau <at> supelec.fr,  9960 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2011 16:51:55 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > Actually, it's better to say
> >
> >  #ifdef _MSC_VER
> >  typedef unsigned short mode_t;
> >  #endif
> >
> > since that is how MS headers define it in their sys/stat.h.
> 
> Why not
> 
>   #ifdef _MSC_VER
>   #include "sys/stat.h"
>   #endif
> 
> ?

Because at least some versions of Microsoft's stat.h don't define
mode_t, but instead use "unsigned short" literally in `struct stat'
definition.

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