Re: Which header a symbol is declared in (AC_CHECK_DECLS) ?

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Russ Allbery <rra@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Practically speaking, I suspect that you'll improve portability to
> systems that people actually care about by not worrying about strings.h
> at all and not even trying to include it.  I think we've now reached the
> point where it's more likely that an OS will provide a broken strings.h
> out of a misguided sense of backwards compatibility than that someone
> will really want to build new software on SunOS.

I think that <strings.h> is still the only header in which POSIX
declares ffs(), strcasecmp(), and strncasecmp().  That's a
reasonable reason to #include <strings.h>, although Konstantin
may not need those functions anyhow.
-- 
Ben Pfaff 
http://benpfaff.org



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