stdio broken in SysV?

John F. Haugh II jfh at rpp386.cactus.org
Mon Mar 5 15:29:57 AEST 1990


In article <12270 at smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>In article <THOMAS.90Mar2083853 at uplog.uplog.se> thomas at uplog.se (Thomas Tornblom) writes:
>>Well, already compiled applications that uses these that works need not
>>be recompiled.
>
>Yes they do.  The _iob array element size has changed, so the offsets
>determined at the last compile are not correct for the new library usage.

Unless the library is shared or he is planning on re-linking the
compiled C files against the new library, there is no need to recompile
the program.

The code he is executing hasn't been changed by the change in the
FILE structure in the new library.  It's still as flaky as a pie crust ...
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