J M Oldak wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 28 Nov 1997, Neil A. Carson wrote:
> 
> > The RRS relocation garbage is not a problem when linking.
> 
> Hmmm - perhaps not, but...
> 
> Since installing 1.3 alpha from the CD (I still have 1.2 on my other hard
> disc, which is handy), and the updated C++ librarues that Neil put on the
> ftp site, I can no longer compile (and run) C++ programs. (Which is a bit
> harsh, as my final year project is written in C++!) 
> 
> It seems to compile OK, but when linking it complains about "_cout" and
> "_cerr" (perhaps being relocated?) or something. It does give me an
> executable, but if I execute it then I get a core dumped, complaining
> about a bad system call or something.
> 
> Sorry for being so vague about this - I wasn't expecting to be here
> posting about it, otherwise I would have remembered exactly what the
> messages were... Still - anyone got any ideas?
> 
> Otherwise though - everything seems to be working OK! :)
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> Joe

Guess: the bad system call sounds like an incompatibility between
kernel and C++ library eg. 1.2 lib and 1.3 kernel without
COMPAT_12. Maybe everything else works because libc is in sync but not
libg++, and the rest in pure C? How's that for a model of the problem?

Patrick