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On ia64, the address of a function is not the address of the label of the function. To get the address of a function label, we cannot declare it as a function. Does this patch look ok? -- H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.org) --- 2000-04-19 H.J. Lu <hjl@gnu.org> * csu/gmon-start.c (_start): Declared as "extern unsigned long". (etext): Likewise. --- /work/gnu/src/glibc-2.1/csu/gmon-start.c Tue Jul 29 08:29:33 1997 +++ csu/gmon-start.c Wed Apr 19 09:41:35 2000 @@ -22,8 +22,11 @@ #include <stdlib.h> #include <unistd.h> -/* Beginning and end of our code segment. */ -extern void _start (void), etext (void); +/* Beginning and end of our code segment. We cannot declare them + as the external functions since we want the addresses of those + labels. Taking the address of a function may have different + meanings on different platforms. */ +extern const unsigned long _start, etext; #ifndef HAVE_INITFINI /* This function gets called at startup by the normal constructor
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