AIX v3.1: alloca and .<symbol>
Mark Brown
mbrown at testsys.austin.ibm.com
Sat Feb 16 04:29:05 AEST 1991
J.Crowcroft at cs.ucl.ac.uk (Jon Crowcroft) writes:
| e.g.
| 1. .rusers (librpcsvc.a)
| 2. .alloca (libc.a)
| 3. .flock (libbsd.a?)
|
| can someone please:
| a) explain the . instead of _ prefix
| b) explain the manual page for alloca reference to mystirous cc/xlc
| option to get the alloca symbol recogized * linked properly?
| c) the missing-ness of rusers
Can't explain rusers, sorry.
alloca is a compiler built-in, look up the compiler man pages to turn on the
flag that enables it. The alloca manpage explains why this was done.
flock() in in libbsd.a. Compile with -D_BSD, and link in this library.
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