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Date:      Tue, 29 Feb 2000 19:08:36 +0100
From:      Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>, "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com>, 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>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002260101470.8617-100000@alphplex.bde.org>; from bde@zeta.org.au on Sat, Feb 26, 2000 at 01:10:26AM %2B1100
References:  <20000225134708.B16847@cons.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002260101470.8617-100000@alphplex.bde.org>

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In <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002260101470.8617-100000@alphplex.bde.org>, 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
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