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Date:	Tue, 16 Sep 2003 15:53:07 -0500 (CDT)
From:	Brian Ford <ford AT vss DOT fsi DOT com>
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To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: isatty bug
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Sam Steingold wrote:

> it turned out that I needed to recompile the obj file that defined my
> same_tty_p() - of course.  how silly of me!  [now, I think I was told
> that everything was binary backwards compatible; I guess I was confused]
> now that I did it -- my scratch.c works just like your stest.c.
> good.
>
Executables (and DLLs) are binary backwards compatible.  Static libs
and objects are not.  The 64 bit translation happens at link time.

> (gdb) p fstat(fd1, &stat1)
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>
> now, why does GDB crash?
>
Maybe because gdb actually calls fstat instead of fstat64 since it doesn't
get the magic link time redirection?  No idea really.

-- 
Brian Ford
Senior Realtime Software Engineer
VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems
FlightSafety International
Phone: 314-551-8460
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