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In article <16382@s.ms.uky.edu> plai@ms.uky.edu (Paul Lai ) writes:
>I seem to vaguely remember some discussion of Gcc, SunOS 4.1, and ioctl,
>where the three didn't want to work together.  If anyone out in netland

The problem that I am aware of is the fact that the standard Sun
include file '/usr/include/sys/ioctl.h' has macros which use
parameters inside of quotes ('). This was acceptable to older C
pre-processors but is now unacceptable to ANSI C compilers. The
'-traditional' option may be used to compile with 'old'
pre-processor compatiblity but also removes some actual compiler
features as well. See the GNU C compiler user guide for what
features are enabled or disable when using the '-traditional' switch.
There is also a command file 'fixincludes' which attempts to make a
new ANSI-fied version of 'ioctl.h' and other include files which are
found to have quoted paramters. These are then put into
.../lib/gcc-include and used first before the standard
'/usr/include/...' are used.

>would like to help remember any specifics, please either give me a
>summary of the discussion or point me to a place where the articles can
>be found (publicly).  Yes, obviously I've run into problems using ioctl
>on sun3 and sun4's (sparcstations) with gcc-1.37.1.  The problemis that
>calls to ioctl return "invalid argument" errors.  Better yet, what's is
>the "fix" or workaround?
>
>Thanks for the time.


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John Clark
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