bug#33174: 27.0.50; Dump fails on GNU/Linux ppc64le

[Paul Eggert]

Thomas Fitzsimmons wrote:
> It looks like the second patch still disables ASLR unconditionally on
> PPC64.  If you want to suggest experiments I can try on my system, maybe
> I can attempt a fix so that ASLR can be disabled only during dumping on
> PPC64 like on other archiectures.  Or do you know that's an
> impossibility for some reason?

I don't recall the reason that ppc64 is different, but you can experiment by 
applying the attached patch. To help with the detective work you might look at 
the thread containing this email:

https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-07/msg00538.html

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