Hi Paul,
>> In Solaris 11.4, there were some changes here for better GNU (bug)
>> compatibility, so there's only a single .rodata section here.
>> However,
>> there's nothing wrong with how Solaris ld behaved before: I'd claim
>> this
>> is a scalability bug in valgrind: ELF objects can have very large
>> numbers of sections for all sorts of legitimate resons, so it needs
>> to
>> cope with them.
>>
>> Rainer
>
> Hmm OK. Do you know what change caused this?
what change to what? ld, libstdc++, ...? I see those multiple
.rodata.* sections as far back as the /usr/sfw/lib/libstdc++.so bundled
in Solaris 10.
> Since there's a patch for Valgrind to fix it, it looks like that would be
> the best solution.
Certainly: besides there's no reason for any artificial limit like it
currently has, they cannot expect everyone to upgrade to Solaris 11.4
once it's released.
Rainer
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