Sam Steingold wrote: > it turned out that I needed to recompile the obj file that defined my > same_tty_p() - of course. how silly of me! [now, I think I was told > that everything was binary backwards compatible; I guess I was confused] > now that I did it -- my scratch.c works just like your stest.c. > good. > Executables (and DLLs) are binary backwards compatible. Static libs and objects are not. The 64 bit translation happens at link time.
> (gdb) p fstat(fd1, &stat1) > Segmentation fault (core dumped) > > now, why does GDB crash? > Maybe because gdb actually calls fstat instead of fstat64 since it doesn't get the magic link time redirection? No idea really. -- Brian Ford Senior Realtime Software Engineer VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems FlightSafety International Phone: 314-551-8460 Fax: 314-551-8444 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/