From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 1 2:24:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from knight.cons.org (knight.cons.org [194.233.237.86]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E16D937BE93; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 02:24:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cracauer@knight.cons.org) Received: (from cracauer@localhost) by knight.cons.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA02565; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 19:08:37 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 19:08:36 +0100 From: Martin Cracauer To: Bruce Evans Cc: Martin Cracauer , "David O'Brien" , jdp@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: extern variables in shared libraries broken (ld.so or mmap bug) Message-ID: <20000229190835.A2552@cons.org> References: <20000225134708.B16847@cons.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from bde@zeta.org.au on Sat, Feb 26, 2000 at 01:10:26AM +1100 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In , Bruce Evans wrote: > On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Martin Cracauer wrote: > > It is possible that we indroduced the bug by our profiling changes? > > The line in i386.c that generates the code in question is from > > revision 1.5, which is the profiling delta from the original gcc. In > > that case we can't count on a new gas fixing it for us. > > Reverting to the FSF version of i386.c didn't fix the problem. I build libc with an unchanged gcc-2.95.2 (except assert.c, which needs our compiler) and it has the problem as well. What do you think, is this a showstopper for 4.0? Yes, me thinks. Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ Tel.: (private) +4940 5221829 Fax.: (private) +4940 5228536 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message