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Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 12:14:18 +0100
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To: Andrew Cottrell <acottrel AT ihug DOT com DOT au>
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Subject: Re: Bug 00314 -- div() still broken
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Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com

Hello.

Andrew Cottrell wrote:
> 
> > 2.04 alpha 1 was compiled with gcc 3.2.2, so I'll mention that it probably
> > only works with 3.2.2 in the announcement.
> 
> Sometimes it is better to give dates as people do not know what they have
> installed/downloaded. Here are the relevant dates.
[snip]

True. But I don't want to clutter the announcement up with too much
information. It's enough to know that you have to use gcc 3.2.2 with it.
That's the version we've rebuilt for 2.04, so I don't think it's a problem. ;)

Once we've got to the root of the problem, perhaps someone should post a
warning to djgpp AT delorie DOT com.

[snip]
> One other point to bring up is that with all of the downloads from clio this
> problem has not come up before so it may not be applicable for the majority
> of the end users, but it will affect a number of the djgpp workers who still
> use GCC 2.9.5.3.

Returning a struct value isn't an idiom that's used much in C AFAIK. When I
encountered it for the first time with inet_aton (or whatever it was), I was
surprised. I haven't seen much use of returning a struct between 5 and 8
bytes. What commonly-used functions do that? div, ldiv, ...?

So I wouldn't be surprised if no-one (other than Eric & Ben) has noticed.

Thanks, bye, Rich =]

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Richard Dawe [ http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/ ]