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From:	Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date:	Sun, 10 Oct 1999 18:05:51 -0400
To:	Paul Sokolovsky <paul-ml AT is DOT lg DOT ua>
Cc:	bughz AT iname DOT com, Teofilis Martisius <smart AT org DOT ktu DOT lt>,
	cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject:	Re: GCC v2.95 doesn't work (a bug?)
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In-Reply-To:	<8775.991010@is.lg.ua>; from Paul Sokolovsky on Sun, Oct 10, 1999 at 06:37:06PM +0300

On Sun, Oct 10, 1999 at 06:37:06PM +0300, Paul Sokolovsky wrote:
>If you use Win95/98 it's same old bug with lseek()-past-end-of-file.
>POSIX requires that if such call was made followed by write(), skipped
>space to be zeroed.  But win9x leaves previous physical media contents
>there.  That almost surely hits when producing dlls, and I submitted
>work-around-like patch for that (see >http://www.is.lg.ua/~paul/devel/binutils.html),
>but it specially applies only to PE files, not generic COFF.  After
>that I several times saw problem described by you, but only during
>experiments and never in real work ;-) , so I didn't bother to fix it
>yet.

DJ fixed the "lseek past end" last summer for his first official act as
a cygwin developer.

AFAIK, this problem should not be an issue if gcc is using cygwin.

-chris

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