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From: rcbc@honir.cs.cornell.edu (Robert Cooper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.isis
Subject: Sun lwp "REGOFFSET" bug.
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Date: 15 Nov 89 14:59:25 GMT
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Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept. Ithaca NY
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Several people have reported getting the following error when linking
an ISIS application on some versions of SunOS:

ld: Undefined symbol
   REGOFFSET

The problem is mentioned in the Sun Technical Bulletin issue 1988-12,
p2250. The fix for a Sun 3 is simple:

Make the following 2 line assembly file, call it fix.s:

.globl REGOFFSET
REGOFFSET=8

Then go: 

cc -c fix.s
ar u liblwp.a fix.o
ranlib liblwp.a
chmod 644 liblwp.a

liblwp.a is in /usr/lib.
Of course take backup copies of liblwp for safety.

The SUN4 fix is a bit longer. Look it up in the Sun Technical Bulletin.
(Looks like this "bug" is that SUN left something off the release tape!)

                                   -- Robert Cooper