From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 4 10:13:42 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id KAA15485 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 4 Apr 1995 10:13:42 -0700 Received: from hda.com (hda.com [199.232.40.182]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA15478 for ; Tue, 4 Apr 1995 10:13:39 -0700 Received: (dufault@localhost) by hda.com (8.6.9/8.3) id NAA00324; Tue, 4 Apr 1995 13:11:44 -0400 From: Peter Dufault Message-Id: <199504041711.NAA00324@hda.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD-2.0R: ar/ranlib problems with certain object files To: nate@sneezy.sri.com Date: Tue, 4 Apr 1995 13:11:43 -0400 (EDT) Cc: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de, FreeBSD-questions@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <199504041449.IAA05889@trout.sri.MT.net> from "Nate Williams" at Apr 4, 95 08:49:30 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 960 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Nate Williams writes: > > > For some object file in archives created with `ar rv`, the string > > structure in ar_hdr seems to be destroyed. It seems that the first > > char in the structure is left out and the rest is misplaced (1 char > > forward). > > Can you send or make a simple example of this available via ftp? A > makefile with some sources so we can see the corruption would be best. > > > The sources in question are Mach4-sources, but I've seen the same > > problem before (building gcc and ObjC-Tools). > > Most of the core members don't have access to the Mach sources, and > trying to find out which source triggers the bugs is difficult. The mach code has lots of places where the long names kick in. I was bringing up rt-mach when I first put in long name support. -- Peter Dufault Real Time Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936 dufault@hda.com Fax: 508 433 5267