Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1998 11:59:00 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Issues making and using libs
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On Thu, 5 Nov 1998, Mapson wrote:

> But I am beginning to wonder if my original method wasn't simply more
> reliable, because the libs have their own strange occasional wierd
> warnings that I hadn't seen before. Like, warnings about my serial
> port stuff when a particular program had absolutely no serial port
> calls- whereas other programs with and without serial port calls give
> no errors. (possibly order of linking problems???).

I would guess these indicate some subtle bugs in your code that you
should debug, rather than reliability problems with libraries.

After all, you use libc.a, which is an example of such a library, all
the time, right?