AIX v3.1: alloca and .<symbol>

Mark Brown mbrown at testsys.austin.ibm.com
Sat Feb 16 04:29:05 AEST 1991


J.Crowcroft at cs.ucl.ac.uk (Jon Crowcroft) writes:
| e.g.
| 1. .rusers (librpcsvc.a)
| 2. .alloca  (libc.a)
| 3. .flock (libbsd.a?)
| 
| can someone please:
| a) explain the . instead of _  prefix
| b) explain the manual page for alloca reference to mystirous cc/xlc
| option to get the alloca symbol recogized * linked properly?
| c) the missing-ness of rusers

Can't explain rusers, sorry.

alloca is a compiler built-in, look up the compiler man pages to turn on the
flag that enables it. The alloca manpage explains why this was done.

flock() in in libbsd.a. Compile with -D_BSD, and link in this library.


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