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From: j@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: ioctls and core dumps
Date: 24 Jun 1993 19:59:08 +0200
Organization: Textil Computer Design GmbH, Dresden, Germany
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References: <C91nEG.LnL@ns1.nodak.edu> <1993Jun22.224941.10272@uvm.edu> <C920ot.BH3@ns1.nodak.edu>
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In article <C920ot.BH3@ns1.nodak.edu> tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu (Mark Tinguely) writes:
>In article <1993Jun22.224941.10272@uvm.edu> wollman@trantor.emba.uvm.edu (Garrett Wollman) writes:
>>(However, as a quality-of-implementation issue, it would be nice if
>>you got something like "_free: multiply defined" from the linker.
>
> this is something that I wished it would do, but never took the time to
> bother with the linker.
>
But i guess, it's wasted time to hack the existing linker. Prior
we'd need to use another object format. (I've kept some words of
Bill J. in mind saying they only used a.out since it's a native
format of GNU ld.) The most annoying thing of a.out is that zero
is a valid address, such any reference in reading a null pointer
is never being detected.
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