From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 9 09:17:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA27752 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 09:17:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from austin.polstra.com (austin.polstra.com [206.213.73.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA27684 for ; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 09:17:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@austin.polstra.com) Received: from austin.polstra.com (jdp@localhost) by austin.polstra.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA02042; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 09:17:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp) Message-Id: <199810091617.JAA02042@austin.polstra.com> To: tlambert@primenet.com Subject: Re: mail in free(): warning: junk pointer, too high to make sense. In-Reply-To: <199810082232.PAA19629@usr06.primenet.com> References: <199810082232.PAA19629@usr06.primenet.com> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1998 09:17:13 -0700 From: John Polstra Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <199810082232.PAA19629@usr06.primenet.com>, Terry Lambert wrote: > Most likely this is an ELF problem because of the "_" semantic change > on C symbols vs. asm symbols. > > I'm still suspicious of the rationale for that change, but whatever... The rationale is no mystery. It comes directly from the ELF specification, aka "System V Application Binary Interface," Prentice-Hall, 1990, ISBN 0-13-877598-2, page 4-25: External C symbols have the same names in C, assembly code, and object files' symbol tables. John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message