On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 05:54:30PM +0000, Tony Finch wrote: > On Thu, 28 Feb 2008, Gerry Lawrence wrote: > > > > By "does not compile" I guess he meant "does not compile without a > > guarantee > > from the author" -- so I guess that means NO software compiles.... > > No, I mean DJB's guaranteed version does not compile without patches. It > has incorrect declarations for various libc internals such as errno.
Could it ever have compiled on any out of the box Unix variant ever? Did something he happened to once use have just the right level of sloppiness in libc to allow it to work? Nicholas Clark
