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Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 01:03:53 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: "srikrish" <srikrish@in.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] binfmt_elf.c SIGILL with large external static array on
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"srikrish" <srikrish@in.ibm.com> wrote:
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>  When using the follow code compiled as an ELF32 binary on a PPC64 machine, application terminates with a SIGILL.

Yes.  I have queued up a patch for this from Roland Turner.  It is at

	ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.0-test10/2.6.0-test10-mm1/broken-out/fix-ELF-exec-with-huge-bss.patch

Could you please review and test it?