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-rw-r--r--ChangeLog4
-rw-r--r--csu/Makefile2
-rw-r--r--sysdeps/alpha/elf/start.S10
3 files changed, 14 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index ca19c80427..8a4b4eb940 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2000-12-05  Ulrich Drepper  <drepper@redhat.com>
+
+	* sysdeps/alpha/elf/start.S (__data_start): Define.
+
 2000-12-05  H.J. Lu  <hjl@gnu.org>
 
 	* nss/getXXent_r.c (setup): Change the return type to int.
diff --git a/csu/Makefile b/csu/Makefile
index 24e1ecd01c..582571b639 100644
--- a/csu/Makefile
+++ b/csu/Makefile
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Makefile for csu code for GNU C library.
 
-# Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright (C) 1995,1996,1997,1998,1999,2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 # This file is part of the GNU C Library.
 
 # The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
diff --git a/sysdeps/alpha/elf/start.S b/sysdeps/alpha/elf/start.S
index b5e5df102a..90f59f0452 100644
--- a/sysdeps/alpha/elf/start.S
+++ b/sysdeps/alpha/elf/start.S
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /* Startup code for Alpha/ELF.
-   Copyright (C) 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+   Copyright (C) 1993,1995,1996,1997,1998,2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
    This file is part of the GNU C Library.
    Contributed by Richard Henderson <rth@tamu.edu>
 
@@ -59,3 +59,11 @@ _start:
 
 /* For ECOFF backwards compatibility. */
 weak_alias(_start, __start)
+
+/* Define a symbol for the first piece of initialized data.  */
+	.data
+	.globl __data_start
+__data_start:
+	.long 0
+	.weak data_start
+	data_start = __data_start