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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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