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Re: pb compiling with gcc-2.7.2.3-3



Juan Cespedes wrote:
> 	Should that program work?  You are initializing a local
> variable with the contents of an extern one.  It's like this one:
> ---cut here---
> extern int a;
> int b = a;
> main() {}
> ---cut here---
> 	...which doesn't work on sparc, and doesn't work on i386.
> 
> 	In libc5 and glibc-2.0, std{in,out,err} are defined to... I
> don't know what, but they aren't strictly `extern FILE *', as ANSI C
> says they should be.

At least, it works with libc5.

> 	I think the problem is in that program.  But I may be wrong...
> I don't have the ANSI C specs here.

Well, I don't know much about the specs.  Anyway I fixed the program.
Thanks.

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