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MiNTlib: Yet another megapatch



ftp://ftp.cam.org/users/ypell  has been updated with a new
MiNTlib patch, PL48 beta-3.  This adds a contribution by
Mikko Larjava, who says:

> here's a few pathes relative to pl47. 
>
> I changed all b?? opcodes to j?? to give newer gas' a
> possibility to optimize their size. Added :w for baserelative
> labels.
>
> nice() didn't return correct value according to a test on gnu
> shell utils.
>
> In uname() gethosbyname was called with size of 15 althougth
> the size in utsname.h was only 9 chars. I'd also liked it to
> return 'atarifalcon' instead of only 'falcon' because many of
> the configure scripts try to determinate the name of the
> machine by calling uname (which uses uname()) and check for
> the vendor to be something starting with atari.
>
> utsname strings should be null terminated if I'm not wrong.

Also, I changed strerror.c as discussed on the list.

Yves
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