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Date:      Fri, 05 Feb 1999 17:07:27 -0800 (PST)
From:      John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ldconfig and libraries
Message-ID:  <XFMail.990205170727.jdp@polstra.com>
In-Reply-To: <199902060050.RAA21166@usr02.primenet.com>

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Terry Lambert wrote:
> 
> As an interesting side not to this, I was shot in the head by
> the a.out ld.so just recently.
> 
> What happenend was several machines were upgraded from a.out to
> a stabilized version of 3.0, and some a.out programs ran, while
> others did not.
> 
> The failure, in all cases, was an FP exception on the a.out
> executable being run.
> 
> Attempting to ldd the binary in question also resulted in an
> FP exception, while on the binaries that ran, ldd ran fine.
> 
> Installing the missing a.out shared libraries fixed both the ldd
> problem and the execution problem.
> 
> Looks like a nasty bug in the a.out compatability ld.so.

Test case, please.
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  John Polstra                                               jdp@polstra.com
  John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.                        Seattle, Washington USA
  "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public."
                                                            -- H. L. Mencken

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