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Mention that AIX has a crippled wchar_t type.
author Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
date Sun, 21 Dec 2008 13:26:10 +0100
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@node strsignal
@section @code{strsignal}
@findex strsignal

POSIX specification: @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/strsignal.html}

Gnulib module: strsignal

Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
@itemize
@item
This function is missing on some platforms:
AIX 4.3.2, HP-UX 11, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, mingw.

@item
This function does not return a string for out-of-range numbers on
some platforms:
Solaris, AIX 5.1.
@end itemize

Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
@itemize
This function returns @code{const char *} instead of @code{char *} on
some platforms:
cygwin 1.5.25.
@end itemize