From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 8 16:56:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA23449 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 16:56:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dt053nb4.san.rr.com (dt053nb4.san.rr.com [204.210.34.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA23420 for ; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 16:56:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (Studded@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dt053nb4.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA29199; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 16:55:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@gorean.org) Message-ID: <361D5109.4D7BFAA9@gorean.org> Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 16:55:53 -0700 From: Studded Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5b2 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE-0929 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Terry Lambert CC: Mike Smith , archie@whistle.com, FreeBSD-Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mail in free(): warning: junk pointer, too high to make sense. References: <199810082314.QAA22401@usr06.primenet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** Go PADRES! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message