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Re: glibc 2.1.2pre3
At 14:45 27.08.99 , Geoff Keating wrote:
> > From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
> > Date: 25 Aug 1999 15:06:56 -0700
> >
> > I've uploaded the third prerelease for glibc 2.1.2 to
>...
> > So, test this version and send feedback to
> libc-alpha@sourceware.cygnus.com.
>
>Works fine for me on ppc-linux.
For me too. It seems the problems the JDK had with threads in pre2 are gone
now (at least I heard no complaints yet :-) ).
However, Corey Minyard pointed out a small omission in
sysdeps/powerpc/elf/start.S which hinders libgcj on PPC. __data_start
should be global. Uli, could you please apply the following obvious patch
for 2.1.2?
Franz.
Index: start.S
===================================================================
RCS file: /glibc/cvsfiles/libc/sysdeps/powerpc/elf/start.S,v
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -u -p -r1.2 start.S
--- start.S 1998/08/26 17:02:12 1.2
+++ start.S 1999/08/27 13:16:33
@@ -60,5 +60,6 @@ END(_start)
/* Define a symbol for the first piece of initialized data. */
.section ".data"
+ .globl __data_start
__data_start:
weak_alias (__data_start, data_start)