To:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:	USG considered harmful
Date:	Mon, 01 Aug 94 15:48:14 +0300
From:	eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il

To whomever it might concern:

Beware of makefiles which define USG!!  If you leave this while compiling
with DJGPP, you'll get a program with most wierd behavior in everything
that involves stdio: innocent calls to fputs() will crash with segment
violation, fprintf(stdout, something) will mysteriously print nothing,
while printf(same something) will work, etc.  I learned this the hard way:
I just spent 3 most frustrating hours trying to understand what gives.
And not even -Wall switch would give me any warning.

I would recommend putting a #warning message in the relevant include files
(ctype.h and stdio.h), when both __GO32__ and USG are #defined.  I did this
at my place.

	Eli Zaretskii

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