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From: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
To: davidm@hpl.hp.com
Cc: libc-hacker@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] move __gmon_start__ call out of .init section
Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2002 13:45:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200211072145.gA7Ljlb28956@magilla.sf.frob.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: David Mosberger's message of  Tuesday, 29 October 2002 23:22:12 -0800 <200210300722.g9U7MCXs000818@napali.hpl.hp.com>

> The patch below changes the ia64 initfini.c such that the call to
> __gmon_start__ is done via the .init_array section (if available).
> The idea here is to keep the .init/.fini empty (apart from
> prologue/epilogue) so as to ensure that the unwind info is always
> correct.

Can you elaborate a bit on the problem you are addressing here?

This seems wrong to me, in that the user program might put some code into
the .init section and then __gmon_start__ would come after it instead of
before.

  reply	other threads:[~2002-11-07 21:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-30  7:00 David Mosberger
2002-11-07 13:45 ` Roland McGrath [this message]
2002-11-07 14:08   ` David Mosberger
2002-11-07 14:27     ` Roland McGrath
2002-11-07 14:32       ` David Mosberger
2002-11-07 17:43         ` Roland McGrath
2002-11-08  3:05           ` Andreas Schwab
2002-11-08 11:15           ` David Mosberger

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