Thierry Reding schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> After upgrading gcc to 4.5.0, I get segfaults when running the run-parts
> applet. The segfault happens in bb_alphasort() during the calls to strcmp().
> I debugged this and saw that the pointers passed into strcmp() were both
> NULL. Apparently this comes from the act() function, which for some reason
> overwrites the elements of the names array. Oddly enough, when I print that
> same array at the end of each call to act() the segfault disappears.
> 
> FWIW, I came up with the following patch that fixes things, though it is
> probably not the preferred way for busybox because it removes the names
> variable from the global storage.
> 
> Thierry
> 
> 

this sound like a gcc bug and i like the idea of removing globals.

re,
 wh

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