Hello, The attached tweaks the tail end of the ppc64_sysv_abi_push_dummy_call code so that it restricts the search for the descriptor FN (that corresponds to function ".FN") to the object file that contains ".FN". Given shared libraries, several object files can contain the same symbol so searching for an unqualified "FN" can end up finding the descriptor in the wrong shared library :-(. This problem occures when trying to go backwards from ".malloc" to "malloc". ok? Andrew