From owner-cvs-all Mon Sep 9 12:40:18 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D799237B400 for ; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 12:40:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail15.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.215]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1DEC43E42 for ; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 12:40:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 32226 invoked from network); 9 Sep 2002 19:40:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail15.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 9 Sep 2002 19:40:07 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g89JdxBv028266; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 15:40:06 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200209070814.g878EJkp040135@freefall.freebsd.org> Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2002 15:40:01 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: Juli Mallett Subject: RE: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/gen siglist.c Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 07-Sep-2002 Juli Mallett wrote: > jmallett 2002/09/07 01:14:19 PDT > > Modified files: > lib/libc/gen siglist.c > Log: > Two arrays were born from the same seeds, both grew into complementary sets > of pointers to strings. These two arrays were fixed to the same size, but one > had an implicit zeroed trailer element, which was unused because the size was > used up by the ones before said zeroed trailer element. So the unused limb was > chopped off the over-sized-but-not-over-sized array, and everyone lived happily > ever after. What does this mean in practical terms? -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message