Re: Solaris 64 bit problem

[Thomas E. Dickey]

On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, hemarko wrote:

> I am using gcc to build ncurses-5.2 in 64 bit mode on Solaris 7 and 8.
> Building in 32 bit mode works correctly, However, the vsscanf function
> explicitly uses the internal structure of FILE and puts values into the
> structure elements by hand.
>
> strbuf._flag = _IOREAD;
> strbuf._ptr = strbuf._base = (unsigned char *)str;
> strbuf._cnt = strlen(str);
> strbuf._file = _NFILE;
>
> However, Solaris hides these elements from the user in 64 bit mode (gcc
> -m64).  As a result, they are undefined and I am unable to build a 64
> bit version of the ncurses library.

I addressed this in the post-5.2 patches (see the rollup patch under
ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/5.2).

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