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Date:      Tue, 19 Sep 2000 02:04:40 +1100 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>
Cc:        "Matthew N. Dodd" <mdodd@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern subr_bus.c
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009190200030.17087-100000@besplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009181008390.23690-100000@sasami.jurai.net>

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On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Matthew N. Dodd wrote:

> On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Bruce Evans wrote:
> > On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Matthew N. Dodd wrote:
> > >   Initialize 'hints_loaded' to 0.
> > >   
> > >   This allows static hints to work properly.
> > 
> > This has no effect except possibly to hide bugs.  `hints_loaded' was
> > already implicitly initialized to 0.
> 
> So it just started working out of the blue?

That's normal for bugs :-).  Probably hints_loaded was getting corrupted
by an array overrun or similar, and moving it from the bss to the data
section changed the variable which gets corrupted.

Bruce



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