On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 02:06:40PM -0700, John Polstra wrote:
> On a related topic, we should fix the Alpha to emit the weak alias
> like the i386 does. That's for ANSI/ISO C compliance, so that if a
> user defines his own version of read(), it won't affect the behavior
> of, say, getc(). We need a lot more of this throughout the C library
> for both target platforms. And we need to fix the calls inside there
> to use the "_xxx" symbols rather than the "xxx" versions.
When I put the weak symbol stuff in, it did work on the alpha. Must have
got lost in the version upgrades.
>
> Don't ya just love people who say "we" need to do stuff? :-)
"Don't ya just love tools people who say "we" need to do stuff to tools?"
8-)
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