Subject: Re: striped shared ELF lib & GDB Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 17:23:08 -0400 From: Uncle George Organization: None Avail To: bug-gnu-utils@gnu.org CC: "Peter.Schauer" , "axp-list@redhat.com" , "Jay.Estabrook@digital.com" for the alpha/redhat/5.0 with ld 2.9.1 there is a problem with clearing out the .dynsym table. IT JUST ISN'T DONE. what ever is left over in the memory allocated by bfd_alloc() elflink.h:2564 is ( on occasion used, by virtue of it not being cleared ) as a bogus dynsym entry. Later on when the table is finally populated , any skipped entries ( done by elf64_alpha_finish_dynamic_sections() ) will not have been zeroed! ergo change the bfd_alloc() to bfd_zalloc() @ elflink.h:2564. this will make my gdb happy, objdump happy as can be. gat Peter.Schauer wrote: > This looks more like a linker problem, although GDB shouldn't dump core. > Unfortunately I don't have access to alpha Linux, but I could try to > re