Message-Id: <199709230137.LAA03694@rabble.uow.edu.au> Subject: Re: DJGPP 2.01 C++ I/O problem To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il (Eli Zaretskii) Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 11:37:44 +1000 (EST) Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com (DJGPP) In-Reply-To: from Eli Zaretskii at "Sep 22, 97 02:35:43 pm" From: Brett Porter MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk > > > However, this is a bug in GCC I believe (I had the same problem some time > > back). Random file access does not work in iostreams. I didn't get any > > answer about fixing it other than getting the source and recompiling GCC. > > The bug is most probably not in GCC, but in the DJGPP port of the GNU C++ > class libraries (libgpp). > Sorry, I was generalising a bit to much when I said GCC. Yes, it would probably be a bug in libiostream.a though, wouldn't it? > This and similar problems with I/O in libgpp are reported for a long time > here. Somebody should download the sources of libgpp (v2gnu/lgp271s.zip) > and debug these problems. And while at that, that volunteer should > consider porting the latest version 2.7.2 of libgpp to DJGPP. Too bad we > have to work with an old version, when the latest one is already more than > a year old. > Hey, I'd love too, but I don't have the time of knowledge. Sorry :( -- "Give me ambiguity or give me something else" -- Brett Porter bporter AT rabble DOT uow DOT edu DOT au http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Union/3596 Humour, Programming, and more.