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Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 01:13:00 -0000
From: Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com>
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In-Reply-To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com>
        "[rfa:ppc64gnulinux] Call ".malloc"" (Nov 13,  7:56pm)
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To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com>, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [rfa:ppc64gnulinux] Call ".malloc"
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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