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Date:      Tue, 3 Aug 1999 14:31:36 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
To:        dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie (David Malone)
Cc:        archie@whistle.com (Archie Cobbs), grog@lemis.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG, bde@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Panic plus advice needed
Message-ID:  <199908032131.OAA76026@bubba.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <19990803221433.A36019@walton.maths.tcd.ie> from David Malone at "Aug 3, 1999 10:14:33 pm"

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David Malone writes:
> > > bde has reported that the code may not be identical when compiling for
> > > debugging.  It should be, but for obscure reasons it doesn't quite
> > > make it.
> > 
> > I'd be interested in seeing a pointer to those reasons, if you have one..
> 
> One reason adding -g doesn't work at times is if the kernel is
> recompiled by a person with a different length username. vers.c
> is produced with a string which is a different length which screws
> up the offsets.
> 
> Maybe newvers.sh should pad usernames to the legal max? Maybe we should
> warn people to touch vers.c after editing the Makefile?

That would be really helpful to us actually and I imagine lots of people.
In fact, you don't need to pad the username, just add the right number of
zeroes to the end of the string, eg.

  const char *uname = "..blah username blah.." "\0\0\0\0\0";

-Archie

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