From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Richard Henderson <rth@cygnus.com>
To: Uncle George <gatgul@voicenet.com>, Richard Henderson <rth@cygnus.com>
Cc: Bret Orsburn <borsburn@codonics.com>, egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: Dynamic Linkage Problem
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 1998 16:10:00 -0000
Message-id: <19980919160954.A24422@dot.cygnus.com>
References: <36026A42.EE6B712D@codonics.com> <19980918214545.B24160@dot.cygnus.com> <3603CE50.20257C9C@voicenet.com>
X-SW-Source: 1998-09/msg01123.html

On Sat, Sep 19, 1998 at 11:31:29AM -0400, Uncle George wrote:
>     can u ( if u havent allready ) fix a LD bug related to the alpha. the
> .dynsym section should be cleared out on the alpha before use. Some entries
> in the  table are not cleared when the table becomes populated, and random
> numbers are left within the table. An example would be the libdl.so
> distributed with the 6cd jewel set. It has bogus entries that causes gdb to
> go core.
> I had posted this patch before, but dont know what happened to it - if
> anything.

Can you still replicate this?  Some time ago I thought the real cause
had been fixed, in not allocating too much space to begin with.


r~