From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 30 05:29:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id FAA09594 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 30 Sep 1996 05:29:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from terra.Sarnoff.COM (terra.sarnoff.com [130.33.11.203]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA09559 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 1996 05:29:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from rminnich@localhost) by terra.Sarnoff.COM (8.6.12/8.6.12) id IAA10209; Mon, 30 Sep 1996 08:27:35 -0400 Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 08:27:35 -0400 (EDT) From: "Ron G. Minnich" X-Sender: rminnich@terra To: Guido van Rooij cc: FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: stack In-Reply-To: <199609281552.RAA05940@gvr.win.tue.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk recall that the stack does get used before you get to it if the program is dynamically linked, i.e. by ld.so and friends. So things are differentin static vs. dynlink. This caused no end of trouble for ill-behaved programs when we moved from sunos 3.5 to sunos 4.0. Lots of formerly working programs just broke. "it's sunos 4.0s fault". Not quite :-) "No automatic initialization" ron Ron Minnich |"If you leave out all the killings, D.C. has as rminnich@sarnoff.com | low a crime rate as many cities" -- (609)-734-3120 | D.C. Mayor Marion Barry ftp://ftp.sarnoff.com/pub/mnfs/www/docs/cluster.html