Subject: Re: dynamic linker/loader problem
To: None <tech-toolchain@netbsd.org>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: tech-toolchain
Date: 03/25/2003 21:39:13
In article <7AC1CE18-5F08-11D7-B3B8-000A957650EC@wasabisystems.com>,
Jason Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com> wrote:
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>On Tuesday, March 25, 2003, at 12:57  PM, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
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>> Any idea ?
>
>If nothing else, please file a PR about this problem.  There is 
>apparently another outstanding bug with ld.elf_so on MIPS that causes 
>tcsh to crash (right, christos?), and I'm not sure a PR has been filed 
>for that, either.

Yes, mips does not resolve symbols properly, and there are 2/3 pr's out
about it. the code from libc ends up calling the real malloc and free,
where the tcsh code ends up calling the ones provided by tcsh. This
used to work... And should be fixed before the release.

>I think the one I'm thinking of is actually a regression -- i.e. it 
>worked fine once, but some recent changes to ld.elf_so broke it.
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>         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
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