Re: HELP

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From: Fergus Henderson
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1993 17:35

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martin@hagi.noguchi.riec.tohoku.ac.jp (martin) writes:

>Here is a question about the installation of GCC.  I'm currently using
>gcc V#2.5.6 on a Sun Sparc, Sun-OS 4.1.1.  However, some ANSI functions 
>are not available, although I use the -ansi switch.  (One example is
>'atexit'.  By reasons I don't understand the prototype for atexit lies
>within an '#ifdef _cplusplus'(!) construct.  Even worse, the linker re-
>ports an 'Undefined symbol' error for '_atexit'!?!)  
>Can anybody give me any hint why this happenes?  (I suppose something
>with the installation of gcc is wrong.  Unfortunatley it was not me who 
>installed gcc on our machine.)

gcc doesn't come with a standard C library.  It just uses whatever
library existed on your system already.  In your case, the library
was a non-ANSI library.

So you can either fork out for Sun's Ansi C library, or attempt
to port glibc.

-- 
Fergus Henderson        |   "People who brook no compromise in programming
                        |   languages should program in lambda calculus or
fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU   |   machine language, depending." --Andrew Koenig.

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