Re: [AD] [LINUX] VGA/ModeX drivers

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On 25 Nov 2001, Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> I just skimmed through the sources of SVGAlib 1.4.3 and guess what ? SVGAlib
> is dumb enough to register its __vga_exit() function with atexit(). Does
> that not remind you of anything ? ;-)

Ah..

> So, if allegro_exit() is called before __vga_exit(), the SVGAlib module is
> unmapped first and then the libc tries to reach __vga_exit()'s address,
> hence of course the SIGSEGV.

..then we ask the SVGAlib people to make some changes for us?

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