A testcase anad a patch for the __gmon_start__ problem on PPC.

Ulrich Drepper drepper@redhat.com
Sat Oct 14 15:10:00 GMT 2000


Franz Sirl <Franz.Sirl-kernel@lauterbach.com> writes:

> 	* sysdeps/generic/initfini.c (GMON_START_COMPAT): New macro.
> 	(call_gmon_start): Use it.

Looks good (module Andreas' comment, I'll handle this when I check the
patch in).  Just to stress this once more: the old way of doing this
is *wrong*.  We cannot define __gmon_start__ since this can and does
introduce relocation dependencies which can prevent unloading.

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