Re: [lars.oppermann@sun.com: Re: [dev] Crash on startup]
On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 21:10, Dan Kegel wrote:
> 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...
Don't the libc developers automatically generate large programs from
scripts in order to test those major components? Would not be that hard
to do, wouldn't it?
Jerome
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