>>>'what' is broken. C does not impose any sort of address ordering
>>>restriction on globals or autos that are declared next to each other.
> Right, except that 'what' isn't broken. It is vers.c (and conf/newvers.sh)
> that is broken, believing that the two variables will be allocating in
> contiguous memory.
> Changing newvers.sh to generate
> char sccs[] = "@(" "#)" "FreeBSD ...";
> char version = "FreeBSD ...";
I will assume you meant "char *version" here.
> will make "what" on the kernel work again, at the expense of about 100
> duplicated
> bytes.
Check me if I'm wrong, but could we not do the same thing without the
duplication:
char sccs[] = "@(" "#)" "FreeBSD ...";
char *version = sccs + 4;
Happy hacking,
joelh
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