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------- Comment From thierry.fauck at fr.ibm.com 2015-02-27 10:38 EDT-------
On trusty
$ gcc -pg tests.c
ubuntu at fauck3:~$ ./a.out
monstartup: out of memory
tests
ubuntu at fauck3:~$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=14.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=trusty
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS"

Problem is fixed on vivid with:
$ gcc --version
gcc (Ubuntu 4.9.2-10ubuntu1) 4.9.2

On utopic, not fixed with:
$ gcc --version
gcc (Ubuntu 4.9.1-16ubuntu6) 4.9.1

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Title:
  monstartup: out of memory and no file gmon.out produced.

Status in glibc package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in glibc source package in Trusty:
  New
Status in glibc source package in Utopic:
  New

Bug description:
  ---Problem Description---
  Compilation with -pg for grpof use seems to work, but at execution there is a message : monstartup: out of memory and no file gmon.out produced.
  Porblem occures on trusty and Utopic but is fixed on Vivid
    
  ---uname output---
  Linux ubuntu 3.13.0-24-generic #46-Ubuntu SMP Thu Apr 10 19:09:21 UTC 2014 ppc64le ppc64le ppc64le GNU/Linux
   
  Machine Type = cpu		: POWER8E (raw), altivec supported 
    
  ---Steps to Reproduce---
   compile a simple test with -pg and try to execute it - you'll get the monstartup: out of memory and no file gmon.out produced.
   
  Userspace tool common name: libc6 
   
  The userspace tool has the following bit modes: 64-bits 

  Problem has been fixed with upstream commit.
  https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=a53fbd8e6cd2f69bdfa3431d616a5f332aea6664 

  Need to retrofit that patch to Trusty and Utopic releases

  I Added the patch to trusty and recompiled libc6.
  Everything is now working -

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