dl-load.c (ld.so) bug??

[Hollis R Blanchard]

On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Troy Benjegerdes wrote:
> 
> testcase:
> 
> #include <stdio.h>
> int main(void){
>         char * ptr;
>         printf("hello world\n");
>         fflush(stdout);
>         ptr = (char *)malloc(100);
>         free(ptr);
> }   
> 
> 
> compile this with:
> gcc test.c -lefence -g -static
> 
> On a PPC glibc-2.1 box, this segfaults in dl-load.c:564
> 
> On a x86 Red Hat 6.0 system, it works fine (
> [troybenj at mos6 troybenj]$ ./a.out
> 
>   Electric Fence 2.0.5 Copyright (C) 1987-1998 Bruce Perens.
> hello world
> [troybenj at mos6 troybenj]$ 
> 
> 
> Either dl-load.c has a serious bug, or ElectricFence is broken on PPC.
> I suspect it's the former, and if so, this would explain the weird
> segfaults I've been seeing.
> 
> Can someone that knows glibc better please confirm or deny this for me?

Ok, I don't know squat about glibc, but doesn't the fact that it runs fine
*without* Electric Fence indicate it's a problem with that?

-Hollis


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