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Re: Linking Red Book Example with gcc 2.1

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From: Jay Joiner
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1992 19:41
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In <199208030031.AA10315@tuna.wang.com> ALAN.MCADOO@OFFICE.WANG.COM ("Alan McAdoo") writes:

>I am trying to compile and link the examples from Red Book 1, namely
>the programm (SWAPSIZE), using only gcc 2.1 and OS/2 utilities.
>The source swapsize.c compiles, but I cannot get it to link correctly.
>- SWAPSIZE.DEF calls for two unknown libraries : OS2386 & DDE4MBS ?
>- also it calls for "STUB"  "OS2STUB.EXE" : what does this mean ?
>If I omit the libraries spec., then I get an unresolved "__ltoa",
>which is a called routine (can this be found somewhere else ?).

I wrote a replacement for _ltoa using sprintf() with gcc2.1 in 
another application, but it should work in this case, too.

Assume the _ltoa call is _ltoa(a, b, c), change it to,
sprintf(b, "%l", a) and make sure b is long enough to hold 
the result.

Jay Joiner
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Subject: Re: Linking Red Book Example with gcc 2.1
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