Re: warnings about signal() calls on HP

>  >  warning: function declaration isn't a prototype
>  >
>  >These are all about totally vanilla calls to signal(), e.g.
>  >
>  >	signal(SIGPIPE, SIG_IGN);
>  >
>  >Is there a way to shut the compiler up that doesn't either uglify the
>  >code or suppress other warnings?
> 
> These aren't about the calls to signal, they're about
> the definition of SIG_IGN and friends, which should look
> like PyOS_sighandler_t, but probably doesn't on HP/UX.

I understand that it's about SIG_IGN etc.

Are you saying that we have our own prototype for signal()?  Shouldn't
the compiler's prototype for signal() be picked up from <signal.h>?

What should I think of a compiler that issues a warning about a
definition in its own header file?

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)