I am doing some maintenance for Solaris x86
Two major (new) things were noted. 1. The introduction of ptrace(GETREGS... which is not supported under Solaris was patched with a suitable stub file. This will be moved to an emulation of ptrace using /proc debugging facilities as time allows. For now this works without the debugger.
2. There are some NULL pointers being passed to printf and friends again, this might work under linux/glibc but is not at all portable to other libc implementations where you can expect a segmentation fault
If I might be so bold as to suggest the following advise
1. Check portability of interfaces you use against the docs for the platforms Wine supports. For Solaris look at http://docs.sun.com
2. Be carefull about passing null pointers to library functions unless the documentation for all affected systems says it's allowable. Be particularly careful with printf and friends because NULL gets accepted silently on linux (quite improperly IMHO).
Now I have one question
Someone cleaned up a whole pile of NULL pointer passing to printf some time ago, how was this done ? I.E. was there a generallised solution to this problem or was it an instance by instance search and destroy mission ?
Thanks
Bob
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Robert Lunnon