Re: libCrun symbol "zero_ints"

On Feb 24, 9:58 am, clarkb...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Feb 23, 8:50 pm, clarkb...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

I am debugging a core dump on Solaris 2.6 and I have fount this PLT
symbol "zero_ints". It is located in libCrun.so.1 Does anybody know
what this function does?

Thanks

I got a response to this question in alt.solaris.x86 that ventured a
somewhat obvious answer that "zero_ints" simply initializes integer
variables to zero. I posted a second question to that group that asked
why such a function would exist (what advantage does it offer to
simply initializing your applications variables to zero yourself), and
if there was a reason, why this function would appear in the C++
runtime library instead of the (for example) C runtime library? I'm
still very confused.

Thanks

I think at this point, the important question becomes:

Why do you care?

I'm sure the C and C++ libraries are chock full of functions with
mysterious purposes. So long as a function works and doesn't cause a
problem, who cares what it does or why they put it there or why they
didn't use some other method instead?

If the application cored *in* that function, perhaps the calling
function is the source of the problem from having called it
incorrectly. I get cores in "printf" all the time, and generally it's
because *my* code screwed up, not "printf". So who knows?


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