Re: [Crash-utility] Accessing integer variables from sial

On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 09:18:03 -0400 (EDT), Dave Anderson wrote: DA> ----- Original Message ----- DA> Did you send it directly to us? (I don't see it in the archives.) Yeap - it was before I was subscribed to crash-utility. DA> BTW, I note that more recent versions of ld make this complaint: DA> $ make extensions DA> ... DA> $ gcc -g -I.. -Ilibsial -I../gdb-7.0/bfd -I../gdb-7.0/include -I../gdb-7.0/gdb -I../gdb-7.0/gdb/config -I../gdb-7.0/gdb/common -I../gdb-7.0 -nostartfiles -shared -rdynamic -o sial.so sial.c -fPIC -DX86_64 -DGDB_7_0 -Llibsial -lsial DA> /usr/bin/ld: Warning: alignment 4 of symbol `sialppdebug' in /tmp/ccYSzE2s.o is smaller than 16 in libsial/libsial.a(sialpp.tab.o) DA> /usr/bin/ld: Warning: alignment 4 of symbol `sialdebug' in /tmp/ccYSzE2s.o is smaller than 16 in libsial/libsial.a(sial.tab.o) DA> gcc -Wall -I. -nostartfiles -shared -rdynamic -o snap.so snap.c -fPIC -DX86_64 DA> By any chance, do you have any insight on how to address that? Remove explicit initalization for sialppdebug and sialdebug from sial.c - they're global and will be initialized to 0 anyway. Removing explict initialization will push these two into .bss and the warning goes away, i.e. --- crash-5.1.8.orig/extensions/sial.c 2011-09-17 05:01:12.000000000 +1000 +++ crash-5.1.8/extensions/sial.c 2011-09-28 15:23:38.393601702 +1000 @@ -737,7 +746,7 @@ // these control debug mode when parsing (pre-processor and compile) -int sialdebug=0, sialppdebug=0; +int sialdebug, sialppdebug; void load_cmd(void) But I'll be damned if I can explain why it was generated in the first place or why does it matter at all. max