Re: [MinGW-dvlpr] [patch] replacement f/lseek on Win9x in bfd to avoid .exe garbage

[<dan...@ya...>]

 --- Mumit Khan <khan@NanoTech.Wisc.EDU> wrote: > On Sun, 1 Jul 2001,
Danny Smith wrote:
> 
> [ patch to avoid random junk in .exe on Win9x ]
> 
> > > +#ifdef __MINGW32__
> > > +
> > > +/* The following is a complete hack, and will be removed to the
> > > runtime
> > > +   in the future.  */
> > > +   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > > 
> > Why not now?  What would be reaction if I put this into
> libmingw32.a,
> > next to dirent.o?, With _mingw_fwrite/_mingw_fseek declarations and
> 
> > _fwrite/_fseek macros in stdio.h.  
> 
> I wrote that in November of 1999, so now is really the future ;-)
> 
> There were two reasons why I never did get around to putting it in
> the
> runtime: (1) I needed to get the ld problem solved first without
> having 
> to worry about user code, and (2) Nobody lobbied for it.
> 
> I did do some limited testing by putting it libmingw32.a and using
> aliasing in the DEF file to make it visible. Can't recall anything
> bad happening. Oh, and I don't remember if I had looked at Cygwin 
> before implementing this code. If I indeed had, there's GPL issues 
> here. I know I had discussed the issue with DJ Delorie, but that 
> fortunately doesn't affect the licensing issue.
> 
> Regards,
> Mumit
> 

I've just done a search for fseek on binutils, and there actually has
been attempt (by Nick Clifton) to fixup fseek-please-zero-new-space:

http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2000-08/msg00437.html
and follow-ups

Never made it into source tree.  


Danny 
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