Re: Fwd: Re: error.c: "Unknown system error" should report errno value

[Bruno Haible]

Martin Koeppe wrote:
> > Is seq segfaulting on mingw and BeOS, too?
> 
> I just tested snapshot 316 and it unfortunately doesn't work on 
> Interix, i.e. seq is still wrong.

Can you find out why?

> Interix has _ before C symbols, all the following are asm symbols. The 
> Interix libc has __vfprintf which __printf seems to use. While _printf 
> is a weak alias for __printf, this __printf seems to call (according 
> to nm output of libc.a) the strong __vfprintf directly, rather than 
> its weak alias _vfprintf. So it wouldn't even suffice to (re-)define 
> _vfprintf.

I don't think this is relevant. gnulib overrides are implemented at the
preprocessor level (#define, #undef), not at the linker level (asm("...")),
and the names that gnulib chooses (rpl_vfprintf etc.) certainly don't
collide with the ones in any libc.

Bruno