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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Cnews and gcc 1.36 on UNIXPC
Message-ID: <1989Dec2.235241.6935@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1989Dec2.022346.436@ivucsb.sba.ca.us>
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 89 23:52:41 GMT

In article <1989Dec2.022346.436@ivucsb.sba.ca.us> todd@ivucsb.sba.ca.us (Todd Day) writes:
>Usually, I have no trouble with Cnews when using the stock UNIXPC cc
>compiler.  However, when I tried using gcc1.36, Cnews would claim that
>all articles are duplicates (even happens during the regression test!).
>
>Can anyone shed some light on this?

I'd suspect problems with the interface to the dbm library.  As I
understand it -- I haven't used gcc significantly -- gcc does *not*
use pcc-compatible conventions for calling struct-valued functions
unless told to.  The dbm interface includes some such functions.
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