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Date:      Mon, 09 Sep 2002 15:40:01 -0400 (EDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   RE: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/gen siglist.c
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20020909154001.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <200209070814.g878EJkp040135@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On 07-Sep-2002 Juli Mallett wrote:
> jmallett    2002/09/07 01:14:19 PDT
> 
>   Modified files:
>     lib/libc/gen         siglist.c 
>   Log:
>   Two arrays were born from the same seeds, both grew into complementary sets
>   of pointers to strings.  These two arrays were fixed to the same size, but one
>   had an implicit zeroed trailer element, which was unused because the size was
>   used up by the ones before said zeroed trailer element.  So the unused limb was
>   chopped off the over-sized-but-not-over-sized array, and everyone lived happily
>   ever after.

What does this mean in practical terms?

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