On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 08:28:24AM -0600, Gordon Matzigkeit wrote:
> I wish I could remember what it was that used sys_nerr like that. It
> was back in the old days, so it was probably something like Bash.
>
> One could always try removing the definition, and see what breaks when
> turtle catch
On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 09:59:24AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> Gordon Matzigkeit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > One could always try removing the definition, and see what breaks when
> > turtle catches up.
>
> I think that's what we should do (at that point it becomes a release
> eng
Gordon Matzigkeit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> One could always try removing the definition, and see what breaks when
> turtle catches up.
I think that's what we should do (at that point it becomes a release
engineering issue which Marcus is in the best position to handle).
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes:
> Roland McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > 1998-06-01 Gordon Matzigkeit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > * sysdeps/mach/hurd/errlist.c (sys_nerr, _sys_nerr): Make weak
> > aliases for _hurd_nerr, for programs that don't use sys_errli
Roland McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 1998-06-01 Gordon Matzigkeit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> * sysdeps/mach/hurd/errlist.c (sys_nerr, _sys_nerr): Make weak
> aliases for _hurd_nerr, for programs that don't use sys_errlist,
> but need sys_err.
First, that's a typo; it sh
I would have thought sys_nerr should not be defined at all, just as
sys_errlist is not. The two go together. In fact, before your report I
thought it was not defined. In the libc change logs (libc/ChangeLog.8) I
see:
1998-06-01 Gordon Matzigkeit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* sysdeps/mach/hu
Wolfgang Jährling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> It allocates an array of sys_nerr elements (the sys_nerr in glibc on
> GNU/Hurd is 119) and tries to store an object for each E* constant in
> one of those elements, but uses the actual value of the constant as
> offset. However, it doesn't crash wh
Hi!
[ This message is about a general issue in GNU/Hurd, which i encountered
during i tried to fix Ruby, thus I think it's most relevant for this
list. ]
I tried to find out more about the problem with the E* constants in
Ruby. I found out that Ruby does the following:
It allocates an array
