Problem with (large) global variables

[Christoph Baumann-2]

Hello!

I have a problem with an older toolchain based on GCC 3.4.4 (target is
ARM926ejs). When running a compiled program with a large global data
structure (i.e. ssh has a 5300 bytes structure to store the global
options) the pointer "extern char **environ" gets corrupted as soon as a
memset on this large global structure takes place. When I put in some
trace output that prints the addresses of the first and the last member
of the structure, I can see that the address range overlaps with the
address of the environ pointer.
Any ideas what makes the compiler doing this?

Regards
        Christoph Baumann


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