Greetings, and thank you for your reply! I traced this down to the old "static function pointer" issue on ia64 and hppa. There was an instance of a pointer I had neglected to protect. Basically, as gcl images are output via unexec, like emacs, pointer initializations have to remain vaild across multiple executions. There is some convention on these two platforms which stores globally accessible function symbols and entry addresses in a dynamic area of the executable, i.e. one which moves around from run to run. ld.so doesn't know how to relocate my function pointers, so I have to define static function wrappers and point the pointers there.
Take care, "Carlos O'Donell" <[email protected]> writes: > On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 2:39 PM, Camm Maguire <[email protected]> wrote: >> Greetings! >> >> In some code reading >> >> void* (*gcl_gmp_allocfun)(size_t) = alloc_relblock; >> >> void * >> alloc_relblock(size_t n) { >> >> ... >> >> } >> >> Why is the static initialization failing? > > Could you please provide a full test case e.g. code, commands used in > link, and versions of the tools? > > Cheers, > Carlos. > > > > -- Camm Maguire [email protected] ========================================================================== "The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens." -- Baha'u'llah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
