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From: scott@nancy.uucp (Scott Bartram)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: POSIX and ISC 2.2.x -- and gcc?
Message-ID: <1991Apr24.230831.11975@nancy.uucp>
Date: 24 Apr 91 23:08:31 GMT
References: <1991Apr14.193335.26288@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <7209@segue.segue.com> <544@jahangir.UUCP>
Reply-To: scott@nancy.UUCP (Scott Bartram)
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In article <544@jahangir.UUCP> marc@jahangir.UUCP (Marc Rossner) writes:
>Maybe my question belongs better on a gnu newsgroup, but how can I get my
>gcc (1.39) to get ld to link /lib/pcrt1.o in a similar fashion to cc -Xp?
>Sounds easy to change the gcc source code myself, but is there anything
>already present that I'm missing?

The stock version of gcc 1.39 supports the '-posix' flag which changes
the linked startup objects to the POSIX versions.

>In light of those articles about POSIX on ISC causing kernel panics I'm
>probably going to stay away from this in my real applications, but I was
>just curious to see some of the POSIX stuff (like "sigaction") actually work.
>
>Marc Rossner
>jahangir!marc@uunet.uu.net

After applying the recently posted "namei" patch, I have been running
POSIX bash-cwru without panics for over a week.

scott
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