Erik Faye-Lund wrote: > On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 7:13 PM, Ramsay Jones > <ramsay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> The getline() function is a GNU extension (you need to define >> _GNU_SOURCE before including stdio.h) and is, therefore, not >> portable. In particular, getline() is not available on MinGW. > > Actually, getline is a POSIX-2008 feature, so it's not (simply) a GNU extension: > > http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/getline.html Thanks for the reference. I hadn't noticed this being included into POSIX. Well, it's only been four years ... :-D Thanks again. ATB, Ramsay Jones -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html