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Corinna Vinschen wrote:

[ snip sensible explanation that I had actually ran into in the past and
then forgotten about ]

> > Or is pulluting the namespace with a macro called "timezone" too
> > hideous?  In that case we could try declaring it "extern long timezone
> > asm("_timezone");" in the header.
> 
> Erm... sorry if my lack of assembler inlining shows, but that really
> works?  If so, it looks like a rather elegant solution to me.  I'll give
> it a try.

Oops, I think it should be asm("__timezone") with two leading
underscores, as specifying the assembler name like this bypasses the
compiler automatically adding one.

Brian

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