From: dlj0@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (DAVID L. JOHNSON) Subject: Re: Buggy scandir in Libc4.3 (was: Problem with aXe loading files Date: 27 Feb 1993 20:40:41 GMT
In article <C32CM4.C6p@ra.nrl.navy.mil>, eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil (Eric Youngdale) writes:
>In article <1993Feb26.130945.9034@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> alfie@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Nick Holloway) writes:
>>But, does this mean that dereferencing a null function pointer will _not_
>>cause the program to abort? Or is it something magic inside library?
I don't think the problem noticed with aXe was the scandir() library function.
I had a version with a hack of BSD's scandir() and alphasort() replacing the
library functions that were missing at 0.96/gcc2.2.2. I compiled aXe with
those programs in it, and using the library versions, and got the same
result. If the scandir() in the new library were at fault, wouldn't it not
do that with my own version?
BTW, the author of aXe is aware of the problem. He will be coming out with a
new version ``this weekend''. Maybe that'll fix it, maybe not. We'll see.
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