Hello, 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? Andrew