[PATCH RFA] remove MIPS setting of __libc_stack_end.
Jakub Jelinek
jakub@redhat.com
Mon Sep 29 21:06:00 GMT 2003
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 11:23:50AM -0700, cgd@broadcom.com wrote:
> Looks like this was done for a bunch of other arches in:
>
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-hacker/2003-09/msg00083.html
>
> but not MIPS. I ran into some other problems after that patch
> (couldn't just install glibc into / easily; had to install elsewhere
> then tar/untar), so that patch caught my attention
>
> I figured i'd remove the code in the mips dl-machine.h which sets
> __libc_stack_end, since it hadn't been done for MIPS. (I don't really
> understand the motivation for the change, don't care to... But it
> looked like a very simple change for other arches, and MIPS looked
> similarly simple. 8-)
dl-execstack.c needs __libc_stack_end being set earlier.
Is the value stored in dl-machine.h to __libc_stack_end the same
as argument passed to _dl_start? If not, you should define DL_STACK_END
macro.
Jakub
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