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[PATCH] Make glibc build on Alpha

From: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
To: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>, Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
Cc: Glibc hackers <libc-hacker at sources dot redhat dot com>
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 11:47:33 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Make glibc build on Alpha
Reply-to: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>

Hi!

I found a bug in Alpha gas which must have been there for quite some time
- .text and .data directives were not visible for .previous handling, so
we ended up in a different section that we wanted.
Could this be installed so that glibc works even with gas which is not yet
fixed?

2002-02-27  Jakub Jelinek  <jakub@redhat.com>

	* sysdeps/alpha/dl-machine.h (elf_machine_load_address, RTLD_START):
	Work around an Alpha gas bug.

--- libc/sysdeps/alpha/dl-machine.h.jj	Mon Feb  4 17:34:53 2002
+++ libc/sysdeps/alpha/dl-machine.h	Wed Feb 27 11:39:02 2002
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ elf_machine_load_address (void)
       "0:\n\t"
       "br $0, 2f\n"
       "1:\n\t"
-      ".data\n"
+      ".section\t.data\n"
       "2:\n\t"
       ".quad 0b\n\t"
       ".previous"
@@ -294,7 +294,7 @@ elf_machine_runtime_setup (struct link_m
    its return value is the user program's entry point.  */
 
 #define RTLD_START asm ("\
-.text								\n\
+	.section .text						\n\
 	.set at							\n\
 	.globl _start						\n\
 	.ent _start						\n\

	Jakub

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