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From: klee@chico.pa.dec.com (Ken Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: DS 3100/Xwindows bug
Message-ID: <2164@bacchus.dec.com>
Date: 27 Nov 89 21:53:42 GMT
References: <7842@bunny.GTE.COM>
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In article <7842@bunny.GTE.COM>, krs0@GTE.COM (Rod Stephens) writes:
> After an unhelpful call to software support and much fiddling around,
> he narrowed the problem down to a variable named "index". He changed
> the variable's name to something else and all worked fine. It seemed
> as if there might be some C language or system internal variable named
> "index" and that his "index" was getting confused with this one.

Type "man 3 index".  index() is a commonly used UNIX string handling
routine.  If you have your own external variable called index, your
linker will get really confused.

Ken Lee
DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif.
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