Re: [Valgrind-users] Re: [Bug 71046] New: Unable to run CVS HEAD "Executable is mapped outside of range"

[Jeremy F. <je...@go...>]

On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 06:45, Andrés Roldán wrote:
> I've tested this and I think it's related to a prelinked stage2 binary.
> 
> When I prelink (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/prelink-howto.xml) the system,
> particulary /usr/lib/valgrind/stage2 (from valgrind-snapshot debian package), 
> valgrind stops working.
> 
> If I undo the prelinking (prelink -u) on this file, valgrind will work again.
> 
> There may be some hardcoded address within the code of stage2 because what
> prelink does is (roughly) to relocate symbols of an ELF file and hence, it 
> does change the binary addresses somehow.
> 
> I don't know if this can be fixed or in the future, prelink and valgrind
> cannot coexist together.

Well, I just ran prelink on stage2 in Fedora and it seemed to work
fine.  I'm not quite sure what prelink means on an executable (as
opposed to a .so file).

Could you send me copies of before and after stage2?

It might me that the answer is "don't do that then".

	J