With the current gcc 3.4 and glibc 2.3 in CVS, I got [EMAIL PROTECTED] glibc-2.3-import-3.4]$ gdb ./build-ia64-linux/elf/ld-linux-ia64.so.2GNU gdb Red Hat Linux (6.3.0.0-1.62rh) Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "ia64-redhat-linux-gnu"...Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/libthread_db.so.1".
(gdb) r Starting program: /export/build/gnu/glibc-2.3-import-3.4/build-ia64-linux/elf/ld-linux-ia64.so.2 Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x2000000000002f91 in _dl_start (arg=0x60000fffffff98a0) at rtld.c:260 260 HP_TIMING_DIFF_INIT (); (gdb) H.J.