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Date:      Thu, 08 Oct 1998 16:55:53 -0700
From:      Studded <Studded@gorean.org>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
Cc:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, archie@whistle.com, FreeBSD-Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: mail in free(): warning: junk pointer, too high to make sense.
Message-ID:  <361D5109.4D7BFAA9@gorean.org>
References:  <199810082314.QAA22401@usr06.primenet.com>

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Terry Lambert wrote:
> 
> > > > It means that there are two instances of 'msgvec' with global scope,
> > > > and the other one needs to be found too.
> > >
> > > Most likely this is an ELF problem because of the "_" semantic change
> > > on C symbols vs. asm symbols.
> >
> > Do you have any rationalisation for this, or is it just wild speculation
> > on your part again?
> 
> I'm open to other suggestions about why a.out works but ELF doesn't,
> but I'm *pretty* sure that that was the *only* namespace semantics
> change, so, yeah, I'm pretty confident that a problem with symbol
> name resolution is localizable to changes in symbol name resolution.

	The warning about the junk pointer when I use the 'mail' command is
showing up on my totally non-elf 2.2.7-Stable system. 
 
> Call me crazy...

	You're crazy. :)  Couldn't resist...

Doug
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