Re: [PATCH] loader: On Mac OS, don't use external symbols for the DOS and shared heap segments.

[Alexandre Julliard]

Charles Davis  writes:
> My first idea was to just add some '.globl' directives in the code. But
> then I asked myself: why are we using an indirect symbol at all? Why are
> we treating this like an external symbol when it clearly isn't? So now,
> the arrays are declared static, and their owning section is explicitly
> declared to the C compiler. While compile times have gone up, at least
> the compiled loader executable actually works.

This core dumps instantly when build with gcc on Mac OS 10.5, and
doesn't even compile on 10.6.