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From:	"Christopher D. Morgan" <morganc5 AT asme DOT org>
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Date:	Wed, 9 Jun 1999 22:06:38 -0400
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Subject:	Re: "cout has different size..."
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In response to my stupid question, Marc Lehmann wrote:
> 
> > As of few days ago, compiling programs with pgcc-g++ now produces the 
> > ominous message, "symbol 'cout' has different size in shared object, 
> > consider re-linking".  (A program is now mysteriously hanging and I 
> > wonder if it related, or if I am really that bad of a programmer :-)
> 
> This is most probably caused by a mismatched libstdc++ with respect to
> your system libc. Have you recently upgraded to glibc-2.1 or have you
> replaced any compiler or libraries?

Yes, I probably did several of these.

> 
> > What causes this message?  Any idea what kind of re-linking is being 
> > talked about?  What should I do about this?  
> 
> Recompiling should suffice. If not, you have a bigger problem ;)

Excellent!

Recompile what?  pgcc?  my program?  glibc?  (Yes, this is a real 
question, and yes, I realize how silly it must seem.)

> 
> > On a related note, I recently downloaded pgcc-1.3-1 but chose not to 
> > install it, as it appeared to be targeted at i686 (even though the 
> > suffix was ".i586.rpm").  Is this safe to install on a P-5, or are 
> > there really P-6 instructions embedded in it?  
> 
> I don't know how these were compiled, but I think its pretty safe to
> assume that these will still work on i586 and below.

I'll go ahead and install them, then.  Thanks!

Christopher D. Morgan

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