Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 16:26:34 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Craig Burley <burley AT gnu DOT org>
cc: jack AT catalysis DOT nsk DOT su, d DOT love AT dl DOT ac DOT uk, pavenis AT lanet DOT lv,
        djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com, fortran AT gnu DOT org
Subject: Re: Inconsistencies between g77 v0.5.23 and v0.5.19
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On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Craig Burley wrote:

> >However to
> >link programs compiled with g77-0.5.23, according to Eli, a patched
> >version of libc's tmpfile() must be supplied. 
> 
> If a system has no tmpfile(), then should not libf2c cope with that
> (in g77's case, at configure time)?

The system *does* have tmpfile, but it has a bug.