From: Franz Sirl <Franz.Sirl-kernel@lauterbach.com>
To: Troy Benjegerdes <hozer@drgw.net>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: dl-load.c (ld.so) bug??
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 16:37:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4.2.0.56.19990623163213.042ffa40@mail.lauterbach.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9906211749280.27642-100000@narn.local.drgw.n et>
At 00:52 22.06.99 , Troy Benjegerdes wrote:
>testcase:
>
>#include <stdio.h>
>int main(void){
> char * ptr;
> printf("hello world\n");
> fflush(stdout);
> ptr = (char *)malloc(100);
> free(ptr);
>}
>
>
>compile this with:
>gcc test.c -lefence -g -static
>
>On a PPC glibc-2.1 box, this segfaults in dl-load.c:564
>
>On a x86 Red Hat 6.0 system, it works fine (
>[troybenj@mos6 troybenj]$ ./a.out
>
> Electric Fence 2.0.5 Copyright (C) 1987-1998 Bruce Perens.
>hello world
>[troybenj@mos6 troybenj]$
>
>
>Either dl-load.c has a serious bug, or ElectricFence is broken on PPC.
>I suspect it's the former, and if so, this would explain the weird
>segfaults I've been seeing.
>
>Can someone that knows glibc better please confirm or deny this for me?
This bug is fixed already in cvs-glibc. I've put up mostly untested RPMS
for a newer glibc under <ftp://dev.linuxppc.org/users/fsirl/R5>.
It might be that the new IP of dev is still not fully propagated, so use
169.207.1.122 directly in that case.
Franz.
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.04.9906211749280.27642-100000@narn.local.drgw.n et>
1999-06-23 14:37 ` Franz Sirl [this message]
[not found] <199906231258.HAA25989@www.cedarnet.org>
1999-06-23 13:17 ` dl-load.c (ld.so) bug?? Geert Uytterhoeven
1999-06-23 14:19 ` Hollis R Blanchard
1999-06-23 14:32 ` Kevin Puetz
[not found] <Pine.LNX.3.96L.990622003119.5237E-100000@unix47.andrew.cmu.edu>
1999-06-22 4:39 ` Peter Chang
1999-06-21 22:52 Troy Benjegerdes
1999-06-22 0:04 ` Hollis R Blanchard
1999-06-22 1:57 ` Troy Benjegerdes
1999-06-22 2:48 ` Hollis R Blanchard
1999-06-22 3:09 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
1999-06-22 4:36 ` Peter Chang
1999-06-22 13:52 ` Hollis R Blanchard
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