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Date: | Mon, 1 Feb 1999 14:09:58 -0500 |
Message-Id: | <199902011909.OAA29894@envy.delorie.com> |
From: | DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> |
To: | cgf AT cygnus DOT com |
CC: | jeffdb AT goodnet DOT com, cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com |
In-reply-to: | <19990201103846.A26507@cygnus.com> (message from Christopher |
Faylor on Mon, 1 Feb 1999 10:38:46 -0500) | |
Subject: | Re: tiny patch for execvp [Re: Problems with winsup-981223] |
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> If we removed the DATA keyword, does that mean that there will be a > sys_errlist symbol in libcygwin.a but it won't refer to the actual > table? Yes. > If so, does that mean that this code would do something funky: > > char *sys_errlist[]; > main() > { > puts(sys_errlist[1]); > } Yes. sys_errlist would be the address of a chunk of i386 opcodes, not the address of the table of pointers to strings.
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