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Re: dtv array bounds

From: Alan Modra <amodra at bigpond dot net dot au>
To: Roland McGrath <roland at redhat dot com>
Cc: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 11:07:38 +1030
Subject: Re: dtv array bounds
References: <20050218000934.GE10128@bubble.modra.org> <200502180025.j1I0Prwm007932@magilla.sf.frob.com>

On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 04:25:53PM -0800, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > Mainline and glibc-2_3-branch fail this assert on at least i686 and
> > powerpc64, and probably all targets, when running dlfcn/tststatic,
> > dlfcn/tststatic2, and elf/tst-tls9-static.  Which means init_static_tls
> > is trashing other global variables.  
> 
> Indeed it does, and this clobberation causes those tests to crash on i686
> when building with gcc 4, though when building with gcc 3.4, the
> clobberation happens to fall on some other place that doesn't appear to
> harm anything.

Ditto on powerpc64-linux.

>  I started looking at this last night and will fix it soon.
> Have you filed a bugzilla report about the problem?

Thanks.  http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=719

-- 
Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre

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- Re: dtv array bounds
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