Re: one small problem with modules

Chris Hirsch (chris@symsystems.com)
Mon, 31 Aug 1998 09:16:33 -0600 (MDT)

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> It was insmodding properly till sometime ago when funnily it started
> giving a "bad_user_access_length" on insmod.
>
> I am using the memcpy_tofs and memcpy_fromfs functions.
> The manual says that if teh pointed to data type is not OK this error is
> generated. I have cross checked but I cannot find anything of this sort.
>
> What beats me is , how come all of a sudden this problem happend with
> insmod when all the time it was working fine ?
>

Hey there...Make SURE you're compiling with at least SOME
optimization...thats were the BUAL is optimized out. Otherwise you will
always get that message since BUAL isn't defined and isn't optimized out.

Chris

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