On 18 Oct 2014 22:15, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
> I have failed to test this patch on ia64 as I have available only RHEL-5 which
> has too old ld and then I gave it up on too old Linux kernel include files.

if access to an updated ia64 system is desired, i can make it happen.
$ /lib/libc.so.6.1 | head -1
GNU C Library (Gentoo 2.19-r1 p2) stable release version 2.19, by Roland McGrath et al.
$ ld --version | head -1
GNU ld (Gentoo 2.24 p1.4) 2.24
$ gcc --version | head -1
gcc (Gentoo 4.7.4 p1.1, pie-0.5.5) 4.7.4
$ uname -r -m
3.14.14-gentoo ia64
$ gdb --version | head -1
GNU gdb (Gentoo 7.6.2 p1) 7.6.2
-mike