From owner-freebsd-current Thu Oct 14 14:17: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from cimlogic.com.au (cimlog.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.51.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B055151A8 for ; Thu, 14 Oct 1999 14:16:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jb@cimlogic.com.au) Received: (from jb@localhost) by cimlogic.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.1) id HAA70359; Fri, 15 Oct 1999 07:19:26 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from jb) Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 07:19:26 +1000 From: John Birrell To: John Polstra Cc: marcel@scc.nl, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: World breakage in libc_r? Message-ID: <19991015071925.A67481@freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au> References: <3805AD86.B6D2608E@scc.nl> <199910142106.OAA07367@vashon.polstra.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.5i In-Reply-To: <199910142106.OAA07367@vashon.polstra.com>; from John Polstra on Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 02:06:40PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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