Bug#427990: glibc: PIE executables core dumps on hppa

[Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>]

Hi!

Sébastien Bernard a écrit :
> Package: glibc
> Severity: important
> Tags: patch
> 
> start.S file is messing up the paramaters when using the -pie option.
> This causes instant segfault on hppa when trying to run an pie executable.
> 
> This causes portmap and nscd to break on this arch and maybe many other
> executables.
> 
> Here is a patch that fix the start problem, but all pie programs must
> be relinked to fix the segfault.

I have seen this patch on the mailing list and I have tried it, but
unfortunately the glibc is currently not buildable (even without this
patch), due to a unidentified toolchain breakage.

This patch will have to wait until it is fixed.

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