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From: 7103_2622@uwovax.uwo.ca (Eric Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: gcc and MT C-Shell (repost)
Message-ID: <7531.2728a749@uwovax.uwo.ca>
Date: 27 Oct 90 01:14:48 GMT
References: <1990Oct24.164834.21929@doe.utoronto.ca>
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In article <1990Oct24.164834.21929@doe.utoronto.ca>, david@doe.utoronto.ca (David Megginson) writes:
> 
> The program runs under TOS and MiNT, but not under RTX (which prints the
> error message). The reason is that the Gnu freopen() function in this case
> attempts to close the standard handle associated with stdout, which
> (correctly) causes an error under RTX, while TOS and MiNT are a little
> more lenient.
> 
"Correctly?" I can recall no TOS documents that forbid closing handle 0.
Since TOS does permit it, I would conclude that closing stdout should
cause no error. Note that Unix works the same way.
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