Re: your mail

[David Brownlee <abs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On 23 June 2012 18:40, Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 07:27:41PM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:
>> Christos' fix affects only the (very late) part where /etc/fstab is output
>> for the new setup. There must be something else way earlier.
>
> It dies imediately when tryign to modify a const pointer to the default value
> in this:
>
> struct f_arg {
>        const char *name;
>        const char *dflt;
>        char *var;
>        int size;
> };
> static const struct f_arg fflagopts[] = {
> ...
>        {"cd dev", 0, cdrom_dev, sizeof cdrom_dev}, /* default filled in init 
> */
>
>
> Unconsting the pointer - which can't help here, since gcc properly placed the
> whole array in const readonly memory.

Arg - thanks for the catch & fix on this, and apologies to all for the
build breakage...