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Re: [fltk/fltk] fl_scandir && scandir_posix.c (#183) Mark Olesen Feb 15, 2021  
 

I agree that there is something odd about the USE_X11 marco.

On Sun, Feb 14, 2021 at 7:13 PM Albrecht Schlosser <notifications@github.com>
wrote:

> @markjolesen <https://github.com/markjolesen> I'm not sure I understand
> your statements. I analyzed the code and came to this conclusion (please
> correct me if I misunderstood something or my conclusion is wrong):
>
> Our only "use case" is to build the FLTK library and fl_scandir() is not
> part of the public API. You wrote:
>
> if USE_X11 is defined but HAVE_SCANDIR is undefined, you will get a linker
> error because fl_scandiir is not implemented
>
> That's obviously wrong (maybe a typo?) because the condition is:
> #if defined(USE_X11) && !defined(HAVE_SCANDIR)
>
> ... but anyway: this is the *only* condition when fl_scandir() needs to
> be defined. It is called *exactly once* in Fl_X11_System_Driver.cxx, line
> 485:
>
> Fl_X11_System_Driver.cxx-483-#ifndef HAVE_SCANDIR
> Fl_X11_System_Driver.cxx-484- // This version is when we define our own scandir. Note it updates errmsg on errors.
> Fl_X11_System_Driver.cxx:485: int n = fl_scandir(dirloc, list, 0, sort, errmsg, errmsg_sz);
> Fl_X11_System_Driver.cxx-486-#elif defined(HAVE_SCANDIR_POSIX)
> Fl_X11_System_Driver.cxx-487- // POSIX (2008) defines the comparison function like this:
> Fl_X11_System_Driver.cxx-488- int n = scandir(dirloc, list, 0, (int(*)(const dirent **, const dirent **))sort);
> Fl_X11_System_Driver.cxx-489-#elif defined(__osf__)
> . . .
>
> The (otherwise) "empty" #else case at the end of the file has this dummy
> typedef only to silence a compiler warning. So I am pretty sure there's
> nothing wrong with the code as-is. Note also that this file is only
> compiled if USE_X11 is defined (this condition could be removed, it's a
> leftover from previous versions).
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