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Re: HPPA and Squeeze



On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 12:21 PM, John David
Anglin<dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca> wrote:
>> So if I characterise the problem you think you're seeing: on mmap of a
>> file at a memory location to be determined by the kernel, a sequential
>> set of reads of the mapped location eventually turns up a zero where
>> there should be data?  Yes, it does sound like a caching issue.
>
> Yes.  The loop is terminated by a null tag:
>
>  while (dyn->d_tag != DT_NULL)
>      {
>         ...
>      }
>
> However, the core dump doesn't show a null tag before the STRTAB tag
> that caused the segmentation fault.

Do you mean "after" the STRTAB tag? I assume the library on-disk has a
DT_NULL, otherwise it would always fail.

Cheers,
Carlos.


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