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jbuck@forney.berkeley.edu (Joe Buck) writes:

>In article <1993Feb16.090409.7226@ucthpx.uct.ac.za> Greg@dip3.ee.uct.ac.za writes:
>>I am having trouble using Xview 3.0 with gcc v.2.3.3.  Using the
>>standard compiler (cc) my program compiles and runs, no problem.
>>Compiling with gcc seems to work, but after the call to 'xv_init',
>>there is a segmentation fault.  Is this a common problem with a simple
>>fix?  Or should things be running smoothly and I'm screwing up?
>
>By default, gcc has a different convention for passing structures by value
>than Sun cc does.  If you are passing a structure by value from a
>gcc-compiled routine to a cc-compiled routine, bad things may result.
>
>The -fpcc-struct-return flag makes gcc do things the way the vendor's
>compiler does.
>
>
>--
>Joe Buck	jbuck@ohm.berkeley.edu


I have successfully run gcc-2.2.3 and XVIEW 3.0 with no problems.  However,
some of my code still produces core dumps sometimes, but I am guessing that
it is something I'm doing wrong, rather than GCC.

   - David Summers
   (dws@engr.uark.edu)

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