Package: klibc Version: 1.5.20-1 On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 01:42:31PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > We've been experimenting with bringing up a ppc64 port of Ubuntu. As > part of this I found that, much like ia64 (#439181), klibc shared > binaries simply segfault on ppc64: they seem to be loading > __malloc_head.next_free from the wrong place so as soon as anything > calls malloc it segfaults.
Confirmed. The problem is that the correct toc pointer (r2) is not being set on calls into klibc. Instead of going via a plt call stub, a call just goes directly like any other call to locally defined functions. > so perhaps you could add it to the list of > architectures that need static binaries? A better fix would be to teach GNU ld how to handle -R objects. I'm looking into that. Another workaround is simply to never build ppc64 klibc. After all, ppc64 machines will quite happily run ppc32 klibc and 32-bit binaries are likely to be smaller. -- Alan Modra Australia Development Lab, IBM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
