Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 12:13:05 -0400 (EDT) From: "Woodchuck" <djv@bedford.net> To: jahan@pc.jaring.my Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is there a ) in mktemp.c ? Message-ID: <199810191613.MAA15950@castor.chuck> In-Reply-To: <36293A77.D95CFF87@pc.jaring.my> from Jahan at "Oct 17, 98 05:46:47 pm"
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Jahan wrote:
> Hi all,
> Have you all got a ")" in /usr/src/lib/libc/stdlib/mktemp.c line
> 98 int p)d,rval ?
>
> Jahan
>
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The file is in ..../stdio/mktemp.c, not stdlib.
The line in question should read
int pid,rval;
This is a single bit error, ')' = 051 or 0x29, 'i' = 0151 or 0x69.
Somebody, somewhere, dropped the ball -- the usual suspect is the
memory on your machine; second suspect is a bad block on a disk
drive. I usually suspect memory. Are you getting SIGSEGV (Sig
11) or Bus Errors (Sig 8) when compiling? On a machine with known
bad memory, I have seen these single-bit errors in the intermediate
asm files produced when compiling, and in object files as well,
sometimes producing mysteriously unworking executables.
It could have been a glitch anywhere in the history of this file.
If you are using a SCSI disk, you might want to do a surface scan
from the BIOS.
(I think it's memory though -- If everybody used ECC memory,
these problems would vanish).
Dave
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