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>>>>> "Axel" == Axel Seibert <aseibert@cybernet-ag.net> writes:

Axel> typedef SIGTYPE (*signal_handler_t) (int);

Martin> Looks harmless enough. Please dig some more. Often examining
Martin> the source files after it's been pre-processed is useful.

Here is the patch that was applied to beta4:

Index: syssignal.h
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/local/xemacs/xemacs-19.15/src/syssignal.h,v
retrieving revision 1.1.1.1
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -u -r1.1.1.1 -r1.2
--- syssignal.h 1996/12/18 03:38:24     1.1.1.1
+++ syssignal.h 1996/12/22 00:29:52     1.2
@@ -88,11 +88,12 @@
    the risk of someone forgetting this convention and calling
    signal() directly. */
 
+typedef SIGTYPE (*signal_handler_t) (int);
+
 #if defined (HAVE_SIGPROCMASK)
 
 /* The POSIX way (sigaction, sigprocmask, sigpending, sigsuspend) */
 
-typedef SIGTYPE (*signal_handler_t) (int);
 extern signal_handler_t sys_do_signal (int signal_number,
                                       signal_handler_t action);
 /* Provide our own version of signal(), that calls sigaction().  The


That typedef was moved outside the `#if defined (HAVE_SIGPROCMASK)' guard.
If it's choking and dying on NeXT, give me a NeXT-specific guard
symbol to wrap around it.
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