GNU bug report logs - #33174
27.0.50; Dump fails on GNU/Linux ppc64le

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Reported by: Thomas Fitzsimmons <fitzsim <at> fitzsim.org>

Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2018 10:31:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 27.0.50

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #55 received at 33174-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Thomas Fitzsimmons <fitzsim <at> fitzsim.org>
Cc: 33174-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#33174: 27.0.50; Dump fails on GNU/Linux ppc64le
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2018 06:42:42 -0800

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Thomas Fitzsimmons wrote:
> It looks like the second patch still disables ASLR unconditionally on
> PPC64.  If you want to suggest experiments I can try on my system, maybe
> I can attempt a fix so that ASLR can be disabled only during dumping on
> PPC64 like on other archiectures.  Or do you know that's an
> impossibility for some reason?

I don't recall the reason that ppc64 is different, but you can experiment by 
applying the attached patch. To help with the detective work you might look at 
the thread containing this email:

https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-07/msg00538.html

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