Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 09:25:33 -0400 From: "John R. LoVerso" <loverso@sitaranetworks.com> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: EGCS breaks what(1) Message-ID: <370A0B4D.2A710364@sitara.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904052133460.42766-100000@janus.syracuse.net> <199904060156.SAA84557@apollo.backplane.com>
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> 'what' is broken. C does not impose any sort of address ordering
> restriction on globals or autos that are declared next to each other.
Right, except that 'what' isn't broken. It is vers.c (and conf/newvers.sh)
that is broken, believing that the two variables will be allocating in
contiguous memory.
Changing newvers.sh to generate
char sccs[] = "@(" "#)" "FreeBSD ...";
char version = "FreeBSD ...";
will make "what" on the kernel work again, at the expense of about 100
duplicated
bytes.
The real question is whether the extreme alignment and padding used by EGCS can
be turned off, especially for 486s.
John
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