On Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 09:30:10PM +0200, Matthew Jacob wrote:

 > Log Message:
 > There's a compiler bug for sparc64 that makes the construct:
 > 
 > 	char *foo = "XXXX";
 > 	...
 > 	foo[1] = 'Y';
 > 
 > blow up (in the kernel) with the 2nd assignment. Work around it here-
 > it's probably just as well- I was spending more in cpu instructions doing
 > the assignment than I was saving in string space (it would have been
 > cheap on a pdp11 or a 68k- but the address loads and assignments on something
 > like sparc or alpha way outweigh the savings in space. Tsk.).

This really isn't a bug.  Try compiling the module with -fwritable-strings
and it should work.  If you want it to work, make it:

char foo[] = "XXXX";
...
	foo[1] = 'Y';

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>