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Re: __gmon_start__ issues between 2.1.x and 2.2.x on sparc(?)
At 19:35 19.02.2001, Ben Collins wrote:
>On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 01:22:42PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 10:14:58AM -0800, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> > > Franz Sirl <Franz.Sirl-kernel@lauterbach.com> writes:
> > >
> > > > We had the same problem on PPC, AFAIR it was solved by this change in
> > > > binutils/bfd:
> > >
> > > Yep, it's definitely a binutils bug.
> >
> > Ok, this makes sense then, and seems to be fixed in the latest binutils.
> > Big question is, is there anything I can do to make these "broken"
> > libraries and binaries work under glibc 2.2.x? It's impossible for me to
> > retroactively build an already released Debian sparc distribution, and
> > upgrading needs to be as painless as possible.
>
>Duh, actually, binutils is not fixed.
It should be quite easy to do a Sparc/ARM patch similar to the PPC patch,
the elfXX-ARCH.c files are usually quite similar. Actually Sparc and PPC
are very similar AFAIR.
Franz.