Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 14:35:43 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Brett Porter <bporter AT rabble DOT uow DOT edu DOT au>
cc: cbalciza AT mail DOT dntis DOT ro, DJGPP <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: DJGPP 2.01 C++ I/O problem
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On Mon, 22 Sep 1997, Brett Porter wrote:

> However, this is a bug in GCC I believe (I had the same problem some time
> back). Random file access does not work in iostreams. I didn't get any
> answer about fixing it other than getting the source and recompiling GCC.

The bug is most probably not in GCC, but in the DJGPP port of the GNU C++ 
class libraries (libgpp).

This and similar problems with I/O in libgpp are reported for a long time
here.  Somebody should download the sources of libgpp (v2gnu/lgp271s.zip)
and debug these problems.  And while at that, that volunteer should
consider porting the latest version 2.7.2 of libgpp to DJGPP.  Too bad we
have to work with an old version, when the latest one is already more than
a year old.