Re: 4GL and GNU gcc Compiler

Posted in 1998

Rob Zook — Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:53:02 -0500 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

WF Software wrote: > In article <6qenqc$jr9$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, > rainer.von-bongartz@dil.de > () wrote: > > > we tried to substitute our bundled cc Compiler on our HP 10.20 > machine > > with > > the GNU gcc Compiler. > > Compilation of 4GL programs worked fine, but at run-time we got > several > > 'menory fault core dump' aborts of our 4ge programs. > > > > Does anybody use gcc and 4GL and can give us any advice how to > compile > > 4GL > > programs with gcc. > > > > Have you set the option -fwriteablestrings. gcc should work by setting the environment variable C4GLFLAGS to -fwritable-strings. Rob Z.