Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Nit

[Andrew Suffield]

On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 11:58:08AM -0700, Tom Lord wrote:
> That's why I think that the address of a string constant works out
> better than densely-packed integers:  the linker will give each error
> (represented as a string constant) it's own address (in each
> executable or process).

But you sacrifice the possibility of passing errors between
processes, and I can't see any reason why you do that - nothing in
your scheme depends on the error values being randomly assigned in
every process.

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