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Date:      Fri, 15 Oct 1999 07:19:26 +1000
From:      John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>
To:        John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
Cc:        marcel@scc.nl, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: World breakage in libc_r?
Message-ID:  <19991015071925.A67481@freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <199910142106.OAA07367@vashon.polstra.com>; from John Polstra on Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 02:06:40PM -0700
References:  <XFMail.991013143629.jdp@polstra.com> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910140907140.306-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com> <3805AD86.B6D2608E@scc.nl> <199910142106.OAA07367@vashon.polstra.com>

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On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 02:06:40PM -0700, John Polstra wrote:
> On a related topic, we should fix the Alpha to emit the weak alias
> like the i386 does.  That's for ANSI/ISO C compliance, so that if a
> user defines his own version of read(), it won't affect the behavior
> of, say, getc().  We need a lot more of this throughout the C library
> for both target platforms.  And we need to fix the calls inside there
> to use the "_xxx" symbols rather than the "xxx" versions.

When I put the weak symbol stuff in, it did work on the alpha. Must have
got lost in the version upgrades.

> 
> Don't ya just love people who say "we" need to do stuff? :-)

"Don't ya just love tools people who say "we" need to do stuff to tools?"

8-)

-- 
John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/
               john.birrell@opendirectory.com.au


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