>>>'what' is broken. C does not impose any sort of address ordering >>>restriction on globals or autos that are declared next to each other. > Right, except that 'what' isn't broken. It is vers.c (and conf/newvers.sh) > that is broken, believing that the two variables will be allocating in > contiguous memory. > Changing newvers.sh to generate > char sccs[] = "@(" "#)" "FreeBSD ..."; > char version = "FreeBSD ...";
I will assume you meant "char *version" here. > will make "what" on the kernel work again, at the expense of about 100 > duplicated > bytes. Check me if I'm wrong, but could we not do the same thing without the duplication: char sccs[] = "@(" "#)" "FreeBSD ..."; char *version = sccs + 4; Happy hacking, joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - jo...@gnu.org Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message