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Article #13838Re: ld.so dirties user stack
From: Dan Mick
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1990 17:51
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1990 17:51
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In article <4892@brazos.Rice.edu> gandalf@csli.stanford.edu (Juergen Wagner) writes: >X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 40, message 1 > >Hmmm... Don't rely on such things as local variables being >zero-initialized. Otherwise, you'll wind up with mysterious errors on >some machines. I don't know of *any* machine that assures that local (automatic, stack) variables are 0! You may get lucky on VM machines if that's the first time you've called down that far on the stack, but it's just chance, and it sure won't be a "benevolent side-effect" on anything like a Sun-4, which puts most or all of its automatics in registers... Shudder! Autos *must* be initialized. Always.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rice!sun-spots-request From: charyb!dan@uunet.uu.net (Dan Mick) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: ld.so dirties user stack Keywords: Miscellaneous Message-ID: <5066@brazos.Rice.edu> Date: 13 Feb 90 17:51:16 GMT Sender: root@rice.edu Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 14 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu X-Refs: Original: v9n36, Replies: v9n40 X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 50, message 1