including ctype.h?

John Baldwin jhb at FreeBSD.org
Thu Aug 7 08:08:25 PDT 2003


On 07-Aug-2003 Nate Lawson wrote:
> The header for acpi (acfreebsd.h) defines "strupr" which is just toupper()
> in a loop.  For the _KERNEL case, we include sys/ctype.h.  For the
> !_KERNEL case, I added #include <ctype.h> but this results in an error
> while building biosacpi.c in sys/boot/libi386.  I believe this is because
> the boot blocks are built using boot/libstand and it defines its own
> toupper().  However, other user programs that use strupr() (the ACPI user
> utilities) get a warning if ctype.h is not included.
> 
> What's the best way to proceed?

I would just have the userland programs include ctype.h.

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