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1 total messages Started by Simon Marshall Wed, 15 Apr 1992 12:53
Re: FIX for immediate Epoch-4.0p0 "memcpy(0) crash" when using GCC 2.1
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Author: Simon Marshall
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 12:53
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	This sounds remarkably like the problem I had; I think you may have
    jumped on the wrong reason.

| * Config:       "s-bsd4-2.h", "m-sun3.h", and the extra "config.h" lines
| 
|         #define START_FILES crt0.o /lib/Mcrt1.o
|         #define LIB_GCC "/usr/gnu/lib/gcc-lib/sun3-sunos3/2.1/libgcc.a" -lc
|         #define LIBS_DEBUG
| 
|                 but should apply to any system/configuration where it
|                 is unsafe to reference nonexisting arguments of
|                 function calls.

| * Solution:     An investigation of message() reveals that it is
|                 declared with four arguments yet is not passed more
|                 than two in this case (!).  The following fix uses the
|                 GCC <stdarg.h> include file to retrieve the correct
|                 number of arguments when GCC is used.

	Aha!  I think maybe that -lc which you added is pulling in a
    definition for _doprnt(), which is what message() calls to do the actual
    printing.  Epoch intends it to be its own _doprnt(), but instead you
    link in the _doprnt() in libc.a and epoch uses this.  This version takes
    different args.  To check, see if _doprnt() is in libc.a.

	My solution was to take the code I needed from libc.a (there's not
    much, just a few files) and build my own libc.a to link in.  No hacking
    of epoch code needed.

	Maybe the real answer would be to use a unique name for the function
    supplied with epoch...?

	Simon. 
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