On Jun 9,  2:19pm, simonb@wasabisystems.com (Simon Burge) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: lib/25869: resolver changes make bitkeeper crash

| Christos Zoulas wrote:
| 
| > But who allocates the struct? it seems that libc does if it does not get
| > referenced by main, but main does if it references it. This seems bad to
| > me.
| 
| It would be the first object/library in the link line that references
| _res, right?
| 
| 	 ld [...] res.o -lgcc -lgcc_eh -lc [...]

That is right unfortunately. Even if the object is extern?

christos