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Re: MSL C.PPC.Lib (pro 5 -> pro 6)

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From: Richard Wesley
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 17:39
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In article <8tk79f$2lr$1@mserv2.dl.ac.uk>, Gareth J Baker
<G.J.Baker@dl.ac.uk> wrote:

> There has been a change in fcntl.mac.h in MSL from pro 5 to pro 6. the
> definition of 'open' in pro 5 is now  '_open' (with an underscore) in pro 6.
> A definition of 'open' is inlined to _open but only within a #ifdef POSIX
> construct.
> 
> Does anyone know any possible reason for this?

No, but this is widespread.  It broke GUSI something awful.  

For some reason the idea of supplying a standard library that actually
exports the symbols in the standard library was not acceptable to our
friends at Metrowerks.  No idea why.

-- 
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Subject: Re: MSL C.PPC.Lib  (pro 5 -> pro 6)
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