Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 03:21:33 -0400 From: David Holland <dholland@cs.toronto.edu> To: jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mail in free(): warning: junk pointer, too high to make sense. Message-ID: <98Oct10.032139edt.37814-22953@qew.cs.toronto.edu> In-Reply-To: <199810091617.JAA02042@austin.polstra.com> from "John Polstra" at Oct 9, 98 12:17:13 pm
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> > Most likely this is an ELF problem because of the "_" semantic change
> > on C symbols vs. asm symbols.
> >
> > I'm still suspicious of the rationale for that change, but whatever...
>
> The rationale is no mystery. It comes directly from the ELF
> specification, aka "System V Application Binary Interface,"
> Prentice-Hall, 1990, ISBN 0-13-877598-2, page 4-25:
>
> External C symbols have the same names in C, assembly code, and
> object files' symbol tables.
That's not a rationale, just a standard :-)
(what *was* the rationale, anyway?)
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