[klibc] Re: got pointer wrong in shared klibc binary

[H. Peter Anvin]

Alan Modra wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 10:48:02AM +0930, Alan Modra wrote:
> 
>>After using SHAREDFLAGS = -Ttext 0x0f000200 on ppc64 (which I see you
>>suggested in another email), I see the problem you're talking about.
>>
>>klibc is fundamentally broken on ppc64.  You just can't call into
>>another chunk of code (klibc.so in this case) which has a separate toc
>>and expect things to work.
>>
>>You *might* get something working by copying the klibc.so .toc section
>>into each app linking to klibc.so.
> 
> 
> Well, the Horrible Hack does seem to work for me.  Attached is a diff,
> including a fix for setjmp.S too.  stmw/lmw only save the low 32 bits
> so can't really be used, and stmd/lmd aren't available.
> 

Patch applied and pushed.  I got a conflict on setjmp.S, so I'd 
appreciate it if you could check that I merged it correctly.

Still waiting for my ppc64 box, sigh.

	-hpa