Re: pkg/46037

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

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From: christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)
To: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, pkg-manager%netbsd.org@localhost, 
gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, 
        pkgsrc-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, martin%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/46037
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 04:09:57 -0500

 On Feb 20, 10:03am, martin%duskware.de@localhost (Martin Husemann) wrote:
 -- Subject: Re: pkg/46037
 
 | On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 04:01:11AM -0500, Christos Zoulas wrote:
 | > Try nm /lib/libc.so
 | 
 | Yes, I know (left out the ;-)), but how should a sane program use them
 | w/o proper prototpyes?
 
 I know; I don't think that perl has any business doing what it is doing.
 The reason we don't advertise them is that there are 2 different
 implementations, the solaris+linux and the hp/ux+ibm one and neither is
 sanctioned by POSIX/XOPEN and friends. 
 
 christos