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From: apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: bug in GNU library
Keywords: stat() bug
Message-ID: <2888@atari.UUCP>
Date: 1 Apr 91 20:02:48 GMT
References: <1991Mar27.152726.8444@doe.utoronto.ca>
Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale CA
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>In <1991Mar27.030421.587@netcom.COM>, Roy Bixler writes:
>> 
>> 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?

Yes.  Every library call which changes something like the DTA address
should change it back.  Most of them do; this one doesn't. I think it
only doesn't under some circumstances, like when the file doesn't exist.

david@doe.utoronto.ca (David Megginson) writes:

>In general, you might want to switch to Eric Smith's MiNT library. It
>is an update and improvement on the standard GCC library, and is
>also available on atari.archive.

And furthermore it incorporates bugfixes which have percolated into both
libraries over the time since the 1.37.1 port for the ST was released.

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