3.0.4 (64bit) on SunOS 5.8 sparc - sys_errlist undefined

[Brian C Hill]

	/usr/include/errno.h says that sys_errlist and sys_nerr are
visible in the 64-bit libs - must use strerror(3).

Brian
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On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 05:40:58PM -0800, Brian C Hill wrote:
>         Several programs (tcp wrappers, qpopper and others) I have
> tried compiling are giving me this:
> 
> Undefined                       first referenced
>  symbol                             in file
> sys_errlist                         /var/tmp/ccMv2vDb.o
> ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to a.out
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> 
>         This simple program also generates the error, compiled simply
> with "gcc x.c"
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> x.c:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> extern char *sys_errlist[];
> 
> main()
> {
>         int a;
> 
>         if (sys_errlist[0][0] == 'c') a=1;
> }
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
>         I give up. This did not happen with older version of gcc...
> 
>         What am I not getting' here?
> 
> Brian

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