[Zlib-devel] Explicit link to libc

[William A. Rowe Jr.]

On 4/4/2010 2:41 PM, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> * Mark Adler <madler at alumni.caltech.edu> schrieb:
> 
>> This allows compiling new programs or recompiling old programs 
>> to use 64-bit offsets with no fuss, but also avoids breaking 
>> old programs linking to a dynamic library.
> 
> Thats misleading. The fact that (most) apps compile fine this
> way, you're in great danger of hidden type mismatches.

They are rarely hidden; the apr portability library went to all 64 bit all
the time with release 1.0.  These show up frequently with ported code, in
terms of truncation warnings.  Pity the dev who builds at -W0, they are in
for some surprises.