patches for Sun Forte 7/8 compilers

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 06:12:29PM -0400, Stefan Teleman wrote:
> because in terms of the language standard, "extern C" linkage is 
> different than just simple free-standing C++ functions which, 
> although they are not member functions of anything -- therefore no 
> 'this' pointer -- still acquire C++ linkage. Same goes for static 
> member functions -- strict compilers will at least issue a warning 
> about non "extern C" linkage, for the same reason.
> 
i know all this, but i still don't get it. sigaction just takes a
pointer to a function that takes certain arguments. is the compiler
allowed to do weird things to the argument list if the linkage is not
"C", or what?

greetings

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