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From: mcvax!litp!rms@UUNET.UU.NET (Richard M. STALLMAN)
Newsgroups: gnu.gcc.bug
Subject: GCC and dbm
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Date: 11 Mar 89 16:26:30 GMT
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dbm contains functions that return structures.  GCC structure
returning is incompatible with that of PCC-compiled programs on
most machines.  GCC 1.34 comes with a new switch -fpcc-struct-return
which tells it to use a compatible convention.  Alas, this flag
has bugs in 1.34.  They are fixed for 1.35, to appear in about
3 weeks.