Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 22:44:26 -0700 From: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@freebsd.org> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: current@freebsd.org, jdp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/ncurses/include curses.h.in src/contrib/ncurses/ncurses/trace lib_trace.c Message-ID: <20000523224425.B26457@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005241407520.1841-100000@besplex.bde.org>; from bde@zeta.org.au on Wed, May 24, 2000 at 02:09:24PM %2B1000 References: <20000523085737.A27646@freebsd.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005241407520.1841-100000@besplex.bde.org>
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On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 02:09:24PM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote: > > Previously it breaks system's /bin/sh so sh's trace() was wrongly renamed to > > sh_trace() instead of fixing ncurses. > > FYI, it may also break ftp, but the problem is only visible when ftp is linked > static, due to the problem with dynamic linkage in ld: > > /usr/src/usr.bin/ftp/cmds.c:906: warning: initialization makes integer from pointer without a cast > /usr/libexec/elf/ld: Warning: size of symbol `trace' changed from 4 to 5 in lib_trace.o > /usr/libexec/elf/ld: Warning: type of symbol `trace' changed from 1 to 2 in lib_trace.o Yes, this bug is very dangerous and many places are affected so I fix it immediately. The fact our ld can't detect multiply definitions when linking shared is another issue - I recently send this to -current, but still got no reaction. -- Andrey A. Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru> http://nagual.pp.ru/~ache/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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