Re: [Valgrind-users] BerkeleyDB gets bogus errno in Valgrind

[Dan K. <da...@ke...>]

Julian Seward wrote:
>>This is why wine now deliberately writes a jmp instruction over the
>>first instruction of glibc's internal errno address getting routine
>>so that it guarantee to get control at that point...
> 
> 
> Well, I've peered at glibc-2.3.2 internals regarding errno and concluded
> that it's a *$%*£@ nightmare.
> 
> Perhaps Wine's brute-force solution is a better way.
> 
> So I peered at the sources for wine-20030508 (a snapshot from a
> couple of days ago).  But after some greppery I cannot find the place
> where this patching is done.  Can you point me in the right place?

Before you do this, could you check with the libc-alpha mailing
list and see what Ulrich Dreper has to say about the best way
to address the issue?  Can't hurt...
- Dan


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