__gmon_start__ issues between 2.1.x and 2.2.x on sparc(?)

[Franz Sirl]

On Wednesday 21 February 2001 18:20, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> Franz Sirl <Franz.Sirl-kernel@lauterbach.com> writes:
> > At 16:30 21.02.2001, Philip Blundell wrote:
> > >In message < ho8zn013d8.fsf@gee.suse.de >, Andreas Jaeger writes:
> > > >Is this correct?  Anything else I can do to check that binutils are
> > > >correct now?
> > >
> > >If you can invent a self-contained testcase, it would be worth adding to
> > > the ld testsuite.
> >
> > See http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2000-10/msg00056.html
> >
> > Unfortunately the html version lost the file names of the attachments,
> > but you can d/l the mbox formatted archive to get it.
>
> Are you sure the testcase is valid?  It fails on sparc - but also on
> ia32.
>
> Can you rerun it with "fixed" binutils?

Oops, I looked at the email again and noticed that I didn't specify the 
compile line for the executable correctly. Add -fpic or -fPIC to it and you 
should see difference:

	 gcc -fpic tA-22.c -L213 -ltB -o tA

I verified here on PPC that current binutils avoids the segfault.

Franz.