Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 15:24:07 +0100 (CET) From: Hartmut Brandt <brandt@fokus.gmd.de> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: bin/25308: namespace pollution in lmessages.c Message-ID: <200102231424.f1NEO7S43322@fokus.gmd.de>
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>Number: 25308
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: libc/locale/lmessages.c declares a global variable 'empty'
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: high
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Fri Feb 23 06:30:01 PST 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: brandt@fokus.gmd.de
>Release: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386
>Organization:
GMD Fokus
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD beagle.fokus.gmd.de 5.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #1: Thu Feb 22 14:07:18 CET 2001 hbb@beagle.fokus.gmd.de:/opt/obj/usr/src/sys/BEAGLE i386
>Description:
libc/locale/lmessages.c contains the following definition:
char empty[] = "";
This is a serious namespace pollution. Probably a 'static' is missing.
>How-To-Repeat:
Link a program which contains a symbol 'empty' and watch the linker to complain.
>Fix:
--- lmessages.c.orig Fri Feb 23 15:06:44 2001
+++ lmessages.c Fri Feb 23 15:06:54 2001
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
#define LCMESSAGES_SIZE_MIN \
(offsetof(struct lc_messages_T, yesstr) / sizeof(char *))
-char empty[] = "";
+static char empty[] = "";
static const struct lc_messages_T _C_messages_locale = {
"^[yY]" , /* yesexpr */
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