'char **environ' woes with cygwin
Andrew Cagney
ac131313@cygnus.com
Mon Sep 25 12:28:00 GMT 2000
Michael Elizabeth Chastain wrote:
>
> Ok, here's a patch against sourceware that rips out the "environ" crap.
> I haven't even built with it.
>
> After doing the math, the fixed address "&environ" cancels out. So this
> won't make things any worse (or better) for djgpp or other systems where
> malloc() does more than increment an sbrk pointer.
>
> Chris, do you think this makes your life easier enough to warrant some
> testing and integration into sourceware?
>
> Michael
Can this change be simplified further? Vis:
o save an sbrk() call
at the start to get the current
top of heap
o call sbrk () at the display time
time and use that to compute
the size.
Also can the nasty bit of math used to make the computation be pushed
into a function somewhere?
I think your proposed change just needs to be pushed a little bit
further so that all the nasties are eliminated :-)
enjoy,
Andrew
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