+++ /dev/null
-
-From davidm@AZStarNet.com Mon Sep 2 10:39:42 1996
-Date: Sun, 1 Sep 1996 21:06:10 -0700
-From: David Mosberger-Tang <davidm@AZStarNet.com>
-To: ewt@redhat.com
-Cc: richard@atheist.tamu.edu
-Subject: awk fix
-
-The patch below fixes the unaligned accesses. This is a genuine bug,
-so it's better to fix it asap (not that unaligned accesses are not
-worth fixing...).
-
-The problem is as follows: re_syntax_options is a bss symbol in libc
-that is 4 bytes long. GNU awk comes with its own regex.{h,c} files
-and there, that variable is declared as an `unsigned long' common
-symbol. The runtimes linker then resolves that symbol to the instance
-in the shared library. So gawk accesses that variable as a "long"
-while in reality it's just 4 bytes long.
-
-Actually, the linker warns about this. Probably good to keep an eye
-open for these:
-
-ld: Warning: size of symbol `re_syntax_options' changed from 8 to 4 in /lib/libc.so.6
-
- --david
-
---- gawk-3.0.0/regex.c.~1~ Fri Dec 15 04:53:05 1995
-+++ gawk-3.0.0/regex.c Sun Sep 1 19:10:54 1996
-@@ -920,7 +920,7 @@
- syntax, so it can be changed between regex compilations. */
- /* This has no initializer because initialized variables in Emacs
- become read-only after dumping. */
--reg_syntax_t re_syntax_options;
-+reg_syntax_t re_syntax_options = 0;
-
-
- /* Specify the precise syntax of regexps for compilation. This provides