envcache: huh?

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Jul 28 14:45, Dave Korn wrote:
>   And we're storing through the 'x' member, which is a DWORD pointer, yes?
> 
>   And the thing we're storing into is a bool, yes?
> 
>   Which is one byte in size, yes?
> 
> ------------------------<snip>------------------------
> 	.data
> _envcache:
> 	.byte	1
> 	.text
> ------------------------<snip>------------------------
> 
> 
>   Oops?

It is fishy, I agree.  Probably we had no problem so far since there's
no overlapping within 4 bytes in the DLL, AFAICS, but this could change
with another ld version.  I guess your idea is worthwhile to implement.


Corinna

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