Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1998 09:17:13 -0700 From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: tlambert@primenet.com Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mail in free(): warning: junk pointer, too high to make sense. Message-ID: <199810091617.JAA02042@austin.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <199810082232.PAA19629@usr06.primenet.com> References: <199810082232.PAA19629@usr06.primenet.com>
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In article <199810082232.PAA19629@usr06.primenet.com>,
Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> 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
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