libstd++/gcc question...

[Ziqiang Tang]

Hi there,

I've been trying to build a clean distribution of Jikes, the IBM Java
compiler.  When compiled on a new distribution of Dell-bundled RH6.1, the
executable worked fine.  When compiled on my old version of RH5.2 with
these versions:

Kernel modules         2.1.85
Gnu C                  2.95.2
Binutils               2.9.4.0.6
Linux C Library        2.1.2
Dynamic linker         ldd (GNU libc) 2.1.2
Linux C++ Library      2.8.1
Procps                 2.0.6
Mount                  2.10f
Net-tools              Utilities
Kbd                    0.94
Sh-utils               1.16

... the binary would segfault upon exit from the program.  After looking
at it through ltrace/ldd, it became clear that the version
compiled/working cleanly is linking to libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2, and using

__builtin_new(8, 0x401611b4, 0xbffffd44, 1, 0xbffffd18) = 0x082d1d00
__builtin_vec_new(6, 0xbffffd44, 1, 0x082d1d00, 8192) = 0x082d1d10

... etc for memory management.

The *broken* version on my machine (as shown above) is not linking to
libstdc++ and using malloc/free, with the segfault coming as a result of
multiple free-ing of the same memory location.

At first this was because libstdc++ wasn't avilable on my machine, but
even after adding the RPMs the same problem persisted... Is there
something I have to do to get GCC to recognize that it should use
libstdc++ as a standardlib when linking?

The RPM packages on my machine for libstdc++ include:
libstdc++-compat-2.95.2-3
libstdc++-2.95.2-3
libstdc++-devel-2.95.2-3

Thanks for any help.