From: eplmst AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se (Martin Stromberg)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: startup-code
Date: 14 Sep 2000 13:51:23 GMT
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Christer Sandberg (christer DOT sandberg AT mdh DOT se) wrote:
: Declaring a global identifier named 'end' will clatch with some 
: startup/exit function or data. Internal data should have underscore as prefix.
: Program built from the following code will crash on exit.
: int end[1000];
: int main(void)
: {
:     memset(end, 0, sizeof(int)*1000)
:     return 0;
: }

: Unfortunately I don't know which version of DJ I use, and I don't even know 
: how do find it out, but the test case is obviously simple. (the files libc 
: and ctr0 seems to be dated 1998)

A potential fix is to edit lib/djgpp.djl and change the line 
"     end = . ; _end = .;"
to
"     end = . ;"

It's potential because I'm not an assembly guy and I don't know what
I'm doing. But it works for me.


Right,

						MartinS