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From: rcb@netcom.COM (Roy Bixler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: bug in GNU library
Summary: stat() function changes Fgetdta() address
Keywords: stat() bug
Message-ID: <1991Mar27.030421.587@netcom.COM>
Date: 27 Mar 91 03:04:21 GMT
Sender: rcb@netcom.COM (Roy Bixler)
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I've found a bug (or at least an unintuitive feature :-) ) in the
library supplied with GNU C 1.37.1 found on atari.archive.  When I
make a call to stat(), after the call, the address returned by
Fgetdta() is different than it was before the call.  Is this a bug?
If so, why would it be desirable for stat() to have this side-effect?

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Roy Bixler
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