Date: Sun, 23 Jun 1996 09:58:59 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: j DOT aldrich6 AT genie DOT com
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Problems with gcc 2-7-2
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On Thu, 20 Jun 1996 j DOT aldrich6 AT genie DOT com wrote:

> This may be a little too obvious, but why not just declare the var as
> a pointer to int and malloc() the required space?  Seems finding an
> old version of ld and trying to make it work with v2 is the hard way
> to do things!  :)

Maybe a hard way, but sometimes inevitable.  The posted code was only a 
trivial example, the bug is still there and might bite you in less 
trivial situations when the `malloc' solution is not an option, at least 
not an easy one.

And btw, there is no problem in getting a v1.x ld.exe work with DJGPP 
v2.  Just replace your v2 ld.exe and make sure you got go32.exe somewhere 
on your PATH.  Works like a charm.