Re: 2.4.19-rc1 broke OSF binaries on alpha

[Ivan Kokshaysky]

On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 09:40:48PM +0200, Måns Rullgård wrote:
> Using the libraries from the tru64 5.0 install CD works fine for
> running programs on that CD. There does seem to be some problems with
> different library versions, though. Matlab 5 would not run with libc
> from the tru64 5.0 CD. I had to get some other ones. With the right
> libraries Matlab runs fine with both 2.4.19-rc1 and earlier.

Unfortunately the libraries _officially_ available for linux are
from v4. If HP would release something more up to date, the alpha
iov_len hack would go away.
It looks like in the Tru64 v5 readv/writev compatibility issues
are solved on the libc level. Default (SuS compliant) functions
are _Ereadv/_Ewritev, and readv/writev are just wrappers (clearing
top 32 bits of iov_len) for old binaries.

Ivan.