Re: HPPA and Squeeze
On Sun, 2009-07-05 at 20:17 -0400, John David Anglin wrote:
> > > The info data is near the end of the mapped segment. =A0The l_info field
> > > is initialized by elf_get_dynamic_info from the dynamic data mapped
> > > at l->ld.
> >
> > Why do you think this is wrong?
>
> I don't know about the specifics. My supposition is that we may not
> be copying the entire segment depending on where the map is placed.
Who is supposed to copy the segment? The user or the kernel?
> > > I seem to recall that the kernel mmap implementation on hppa is somewhat
> > > unique.
> >
> > I don't recall anything, Kyle?
>
> This came up with respect to the GCC PCH implementation for parisc. See
> comments in host-hpux.h. At the moment, we do have a PCH related bug.
> See PR 39355. While I know the problem is present in the PCH file, I
> haven't been able to figure out how wrong data gets in the file.
Do you have a bugzilla reference so we can take a look ... also, is this
likely a tool chain problem or a kernel one? If it's a kernel one could
someone provide a description of what they think is going wrong?
James
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