Re: [lars.oppermann@sun.com: Re: [dev] Crash on startup]

[Dan Kegel <dkegel@ixiacom.com>]

Chris Halls wrote:
> I presume you are using glibc 2.3.1 (or at least some post 2.2.5 
> release). There is a bug in that glibc versions which we only discovered 
> during the last two weeks, this will make lookups for simbols in 
> libraries with more than 2^15 exported symbols fail. The glibc 
> maintainers have been notified and this is already fixed in the glibc 
> CVS (elf/dl-runtime.c).

That reminds me of a problem causing gprof to fail on executables
with more than 2^16 symbols; that one was fixed in CVS six months
or so ago.  I guess the tools don't get enough testing with
large programs...

- Dan