upgrade 6-STABLE to -CURRENT on sparc64 renders box unusable

[Scott Long]

Ed Schouten wrote:
> * Michiel Boland <michiel at boland.org> wrote:
>> --- __getosreldate.c.orig	2007-07-10 22:29:02.000000000 +0200
>> +++ __getosreldate.c	2007-07-10 22:28:20.000000000 +0200
>> @@ -42,13 +42,10 @@
>>  int
>>  __getosreldate(void)
>>  {
>> -	static int osreldate;
>> +	int osreldate;
>>  	size_t len;
>>  	int oid[2];
>>  	int error, osrel;
>> -
>> -	if (osreldate != 0)
>> -		return (osreldate);
>>
>>  	oid[0] = CTL_KERN;
>>  	oid[1] = KERN_OSRELDATE;
> 
> Isn't the problem solved by just initializing osreldate with zero?
> 

I'm pretty sure that the osreldate should be automatically initialized
to zero since it's static.  I wonder if this has been broken on sparc64
somehow.

Scott