Improve MS-Windows related commentary and log entry for 2012-08-19T21:00:09Z!eggert...

diff --git a/src/ChangeLog b/src/ChangeLog
index 1e25015..bdfb4e3 100644 (file)
--- a/src/ChangeLog
+++ b/src/ChangeLog
@@ -42,6 +42,8 @@
        Rely on <config.h> + <unistd.h> to declare 'environ',
        as gnulib does this if the system doesn't.
        * callproc.c, editfns.c, process.c (environ) [!USE_CRT_DLL]:
+       Remove declaration.  MS-Windows declares it on stdlib.h which is
+       included by conf_post.h.
        * emacs.c (environ) [DOUG_LEA_MALLOC]:
        * vm-limit.c (environ) [ORDINARY_LINK]: Remove decl.
        * vm-limit.c: Include <unistd.h>, for 'environ'.

diff --git a/src/conf_post.h b/src/conf_post.h
index ead7298..f90ef90 100644 (file)
--- a/src/conf_post.h
+++ b/src/conf_post.h
@@ -178,6 +178,9 @@ You lose; /* Emacs for DOS must be compiled with DJGPP */
 #endif
 
 #include <string.h>
+/* If you think about removing the line below, note that the
+   MS-Windows build relies on it for declaration of 'environ' needed
+   by a few source files.  */
 #include <stdlib.h>
 
 #if __GNUC__ >= 3  /* On GCC 3.0 we might get a warning.  */