Re: libc6

[Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>]

jdassen@wi.leidenuniv.nl (J.H.M.Dassen) writes:

> No. The surprising thing is that it _does_ work. (e.g. take the DDD source
> in a libc6 environment, with libc6 libg++272, libc5 ncurses, X etc. It
> compiles and works).

Yes, Helmut just told me the same - that H.J. Lu and XFree86 team
worked together to allow this.  I'm still suspicous of other
libraries.  If the libc5 library uses ANY libc5 function which has
changed calling convention or any struct which has changed, it won't
work.


Guy


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