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Re: IMPORTANT: WARNING ABOUT g77-0.5.16!!!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William E. Roadcap)
Sat Nov 25 16:23:13 1995
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 1995 09:53:56 -0500 (EST)
From: "William E. Roadcap" <roadcapw@cfw.com>
To: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
cc: linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199511232027.WAA20098@kruuna.helsinki.fi>
On Thu, 23 Nov 1995, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> A serious bug in g77-0.5.16 (ONLY) has been reported to me that I am
> very sorry about, and which 0.5.17 fixes, and which might cause all
> sorts of weird behaviors.
>
> The bug is this:
> .......
> The reason is that "g77 -v" is implemented, in 0.5.16, by a command
> which ultimates in "ld -o /dev/null ...", and because this command
> (intentionally) results in ld complaining about unresolved references,
> ld apparently decides to REMOVE the executable it was asked to create
> (which is /dev/null).
I don't use g77 but I just had to say that I was VERY impressed by how
you immediately acknowledge the bug and went into all the glorious detail
about why the bug does what it does. This is commendable. If all
software developers were willing to do that, I at least would be a happy
camper.
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