Gprof and segmentation fault with glibc2.3.2

[Amy Smith <smith_amy1977 at yahoo dot com>]

Hi,

I am getting segmentation fault with
mcount@glibc-2.3.2 even when my program contains only
printf statement. I have sent this problem to
crossgcc. But no luck in getting back any reply. 

Anyways- I have two partitions cramfs and jffs2. When
i execute ./hello on cramfs, it exits with message 
_mcleanup exits no permission, which makes sense
because cramfs is read only. So that means it executes
nicely till _mcleanup

But on jffs2, which is READ/WRITE the program just
keep running untill i press enter. Then it displays
Segmentation Fault.. no core file nothing.

Do you know if anybody has solved this problem? I have
seen many post stating same problem but no answer.
Maybe this does not interest you... 

thanks for your reply
regards,
Amy




--- Njuguna Njoroge <njuguna.njoroge@xilinx.com>
wrote:
> Dan Kegel wrote:
> 
> > Njuguna Njoroge wrote:
> > > Hello Daniel,
> > >
> > > First of all, I would like to thank you for your
> resourceful website and
> > > tools. I have been using the crosstools to
> extract gprof that is
> > > crosscompiled for the powerpc-405. Since gprof
> is supposed to work on
> > > various formatted binaries, it is  in the
> native_only list in the
> > > configure.in file (see this discussion:
> > >
>
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/sid/2002-q2/msg00039.html).
> However, we
> > > want a crosscompiled version (like the
> executables that have the
> > > powerpc-405 prefix) because we found that gprof
> on a linux x86 handles
> > > ppc elf files differently than gprof on a linux
> ppc405.
> >
> > What was the symptom?  Did things generally work,
> or was native gprof
> > totally unable to process cross-profiles?  I seem
> to recall it
> > just working when I tried using an x86 gprof with
> ppc405 binaries,
> > but then I might be forgetting something.
> 
> x86 gprof will work on ppc405 binaries. However, we
> noticed that it doesn't work as well as ppc405 gprof
> on ppc405 binaries. For some reason, x86 gprof
> reports that some functions were called that were
> never called.
> Fortunately, these extra functions do not influence
> the real results because they typically "run" for  <
> 1% of the total runtime.
> 
> > > I followed the
> > > suggestions in the link above, but no such
> executable was generated.
> >
> > Heh.  Looks like you need to change configure, not
> just configure.in.
> > (Unless you're regenerating configure from
> configure.in.)
> > I just tried it, and got
> powerpc-405-linux-gnu-gprof as ordered.
> >
> 
> Thanks! I updated the configure file as well and
> this fixed it.
> 
> >
> > > ... I'm sure there are some obvious steps I am
> overlooking. Nonetheless, if
> > > you could spare a few moments and provide some
> pointers, I would be
> > > grateful. Additionally/Alternatively, if you
> know of any discussion
> > > groups/e-mail lists to which I can post my
> questions, please refer them
> > > to me.
> >
> > I'm cc'ing this to the crossgcc list.
> > The binutils mailing list also comes to mind.
> > - Dan
> >
> > p.s. Here's a patch that does what the message
> suggested, but
> > does it to both files:
> >
> > --- binutils-2.15/configure.old 2004-07-21
> 21:36:47.000000000 -0700
> > +++ binutils-2.15/configure     2004-07-21
> 21:37:08.000000000 -0700
> > @@ -999,7 +999,7 @@
> >
> >   # Some tools are only suitable for building in a
> "native" situation.
> >   # Remove these if host!=target.
> > -native_only="autoconf automake libtool fileutils
> find gawk gettext gzip hello indent m4 rcs recode
> sed shellutils tar textutils uudecode wdiff gprof
> target-groff guile perl time ash bash bzip2 prms
> gnuserv target-gperf"
> > +native_only="autoconf automake libtool fileutils
> find gawk gettext gzip hello indent m4 rcs recode
> sed shellutils tar textutils uudecode wdiff
> target-groff guile perl time ash bash bzip2 prms
> gnuserv target-gperf"
> >
> >   # Similarly, some are only suitable for cross
> toolchains.
> >   # Remove these if host=target.
> > --- binutils-2.15/configure.in.old      2004-07-21
> 21:37:19.000000000 -0700
> > +++ binutils-2.15/configure.in  2004-07-21
> 21:37:34.000000000 -0700
> > @@ -236,7 +236,7 @@
> >
> >   # Some tools are only suitable for building in a
> "native" situation.
> >   # Remove these if host!=target.
> > -native_only="autoconf automake libtool fileutils
> find gawk gettext gzip hello indent m4 rcs recode
> sed shellutils tar textutils uudecode wdiff gprof
> target-groff guile perl time ash bash bzip2 prms
> gnuserv target-gperf"
> > +native_only="autoconf automake libtool fileutils
> find gawk gettext gzip hello indent m4 rcs recode
> sed shellutils tar textutils uudecode wdiff
> target-groff guile perl time ash bash bzip2 prms
> gnuserv target-gperf"
> >
> >   # Similarly, some are only suitable for cross
> toolchains.
> >   # Remove these if host=target.
> >
> > --
> > My technical stuff: http://kegel.com
> > My politics: see http://www.misleader.org for
> examples of why I'm for regime change
> > begin:vcard 
> n:Njoroge;Njuguna
> tel;work:(408) 879 4873
> x-mozilla-html:FALSE
> adr:;;;;;;
> version:2.1
> email;internet:nju.njoroge@xilinx.com
> title:Embedded Networking Engineering Intern
> fn:Njuguna Njoroge
> end:vcard
> 
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