Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 02:04:40 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> Cc: "Matthew N. Dodd" <mdodd@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern subr_bus.c Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009190200030.17087-100000@besplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009181008390.23690-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
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On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Matthew N. Dodd wrote: > On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Bruce Evans wrote: > > On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Matthew N. Dodd wrote: > > > Initialize 'hints_loaded' to 0. > > > > > > This allows static hints to work properly. > > > > This has no effect except possibly to hide bugs. `hints_loaded' was > > already implicitly initialized to 0. > > So it just started working out of the blue? That's normal for bugs :-). Probably hints_loaded was getting corrupted by an array overrun or similar, and moving it from the bss to the data section changed the variable which gets corrupted. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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