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Re: rtld.c weirdness on powerpc



On Thu 15 May 2008 at 18:57:53 -0400, Michael Lorenz wrote:
> Any idea why? The patch doesn't seem to have any ill side effects but  
> I'd like to know why it works and why we need it.

As a wild guess: maybe the function gets inlined, and therefore the
return address is "one too far up the stack"? Adding a new level of
function call would compensate for that.

> Michael
-Olaf.
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