From:	topcoder AT netime DOT com (Derek Greene)
Subject:	Re: Stupid stupid remarks
27 Mar 1997 17:57:10 -0800 :
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way to go jim!!!!
At 07:40 PM 3/25/97 -0800, you wrote:
>DRS wrote:
>> 
>> Jim Balter wrote:
>> 
>> > Under NT 4.0, the program dies just by virtue of *referencing*
>> > GetFullPathName, without calling it (as APS said).
>> 
>> Huh. Must be a bug in the linker. (Not.)
>
>It is, and I've proven it.
>
>> The following code compiles and works correctly under win95.
>
>It has been proven that Win NT misbehaves in cases where win95 does not;
>ld -s is a well-known example.
>
>> // g++ -o test.exe test.cpp
>
>This has nothing to do with the bug being discussed.
>
>> So even though you and Phil claim to have found a linker bug, I have
>> yet to be able to reproduce it.
>
>So what?  You haven't run the same code, nor on the same system.
>
>> The correct prototype for GetFullPathName looks like this, Jim:
>
>Well known to me, but irrelevant.
>
>> Perhaps. But my code seems to work, while yours and Phil's doesn't. ;)
>
>Which of course is not the point.  But in fact, Phil's code works
>if -lkernel32 is omitted from the command line.
>
>> Regards as always.
>
>Not from me.
>
>--
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