[Ecls-list] VC8 : strnlen dllimport function not allowed

[Goffioul Michael]

> > Normally, under Win32, the configure scripts are not used and the 
> > config.h is just copied from one of the 
> msvc/gmp/config-vc6.xx Indeed, 
> > those files should be updated (and not the Makefile) to define 
> > HAVE_STRNLEN.
> 
> Would you recommend introducing this change in the distribution?
> I have no windows around these days and that would probably 
> mean breaking compatibility with the free Microsoft VC++ 
> compiler and with previous versions of MSVC, wouldn't it?

I don't think it would beark anything. It's just that newer compilers
complain when defining a static function using the same name as an
existing (non-static) one. However, I have to try, and commit it it
works.

Michael.