From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jul 26 12:36:18 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id MAA17866 for current-outgoing; Wed, 26 Jul 1995 12:36:18 -0700 Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id MAA17852 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 1995 12:36:16 -0700 Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65/1.1.3.6) id AA08840; Wed, 26 Jul 1995 15:36:05 -0400 Date: Wed, 26 Jul 1995 15:36:05 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9507261936.AA08840@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: ls_length in struct linker_set In-Reply-To: <9507261906.AA22866@cs.weber.edu> References: <9507261340.AA08157@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> <9507261906.AA22866@cs.weber.edu> Sender: current-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk < While on that topic, didn't anyone notice that the PCI code is the > only code that actually uses the linker set length field? Everything > else looks for the NULL record at the end of the set. Does anyone > want to clean up the PCI code to do the same, and get rid of the > length field altogether? The layout of the structure is defined by GNU ld, so I would not want to touch it since other GNUware may depend on it for correct operation. See gnu/usr.bin/ld/ld.h, as I recall, near where it defines N_SETT etc. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant