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Ulrich's reply on top of stack in glibc 2.1



Here's Ulrich's reply to me.  Note that it's in glibc 2.1, and RedHat
5.1 still ships glibc 2.0.7.

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From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
To: Mark Galassi <rosalia@cygnus.com>
Subject: Re: top of stack function in libc
Date: 24 Oct 1998 20:01:35 -0800
Message-ID: <r2n26l5ly8.fsf@happy.cygnus.com>

Mark Galassi <rosalia@cygnus.com> writes:

> At the time you said you would be putting a
> __top_of_stack_at_main_entry() into libc 2.1.  My RedHat 5.1 box has
> libc 2.0.7, so I can't check if it got in there.  Do you remember if
> you got it in?

We have a global variable named __libc_stack_end (type void *) in
glibc 2.1.  This should be sufficent.

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