From: Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com>, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [rfa:ppc64gnulinux] Call ".malloc"
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 01:13:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1031114011301.ZM6012@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com> "[rfa:ppc64gnulinux] Call ".malloc"" (Nov 13, 7:56pm)
On Nov 13, 7:56pm, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> When only minimal symbol information is available, the symbol "malloc",
> which is found in a data section because it's a descriptor, gets turns
> into a 32-bit int variable. Consequently, an attempt to call "malloc"
> is turned into to jump to the code designated by that 32-bit integer
> value found at malloc.
>
> This patch avoids that problem entirely by specifying that on PPC64
> GNU/Linux, the "malloc" function has the name ".malloc" (which is really
> the function's start address).
>
> ok?
Sounds good to me.
Kevin
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2003-11-14 0:56 Andrew Cagney
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