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Re: [PATCH] move __gmon_start__ call out of .init section

From: Roland McGrath <roland at redhat dot com>
To: davidm at hpl dot hp dot com
Cc: libc-hacker at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 13:45:47 -0800
Subject: Re: [PATCH] move __gmon_start__ call out of .init section

> The patch below changes the ia64 initfini.c such that the call to
> __gmon_start__ is done via the .init_array section (if available).
> The idea here is to keep the .init/.fini empty (apart from
> prologue/epilogue) so as to ensure that the unwind info is always
> correct.

Can you elaborate a bit on the problem you are addressing here?

This seems wrong to me, in that the user program might put some code into
the .init section and then __gmon_start__ would come after it instead of
before.

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