From:	j DOT aldrich6 AT genie DOT com
Message-Id:	<199605150100.AA037902045@relay1.geis.com>
Date:	Wed, 15 May 96 01:02:00 UTC 0000
To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Mime-Version:	1.0
Subject:	Re: where to find the header f

Reply to message 1460608    from UCKO AT VAX1 DOT ROC on 05/14/96 12:20AM


>>This is very dangerous!  Your program is linking in the DJGPP
>>version of mkdir, which expects ( char*, int, int ), and passing it
>>( char * ).  Fortunately, this doesn't appear to result in any serious
>>problems in your program, but it is a surefire guarantee of
>>crashes if done too often.
>
>it's (char *, int), not (char *, int, int).

Sorry - I didn't pause to look it up, just quoted him.  :)

>Anyway, this is perfectly safe;
>the second argument is meaningless under DOS and hence ignored, and DJGPP
>uses the C calling convention, in which the caller pops arguments, so the
>stack cannot be messed up.

Even so, calling functions w/o prototypes is a very bad way to do
things in general.  What if the posix version of mkdir had taken (int, char*)?
*BOOM*

John

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