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From: greg@suntan.viewlogic.com (Gregory Larkin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Question about libpack(1)
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Date: 14 Mar 91 19:26:46 GMT
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Hi all,

Is there a bug in libpack?  I recently remade my libc.a
with Earl's estdio.  The only error I got during the
whole process was:

(while creating the new libc.a)
lorder: _brk defined in brk.s and brksize.s

(something like that)

I did some research and the brksize.s (after libpack) looks
like this:

H_brkoze
Iendbss, _brkoze

_brkoze: Bendbss

Somehow, the "si" in the middle of "brksize" got nuked. On 
Minix, the space is replaced with a garbage character.
Anyway, lorder stops at the garbage character and sees 
"_brk" as the identifier.  This is defined in brk.s as well.

I checked V1.3 libc.a and problem is there as well.  

Is this going to cause problems, or is it OK for this to 
happen?

Thanks for any hints,

-- 
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