
This patch fixes two problems in the linker (/usr/bin/ld):
  o A problem with the datatype of the linker-defined _fpdata symbol.
  o A problem that causes a linker crash when certain data alignment
    directives are used in the link.

 The linker (/bin/ld) may corrupt the shared object registry file
 when -update_registry is specified with concurrent links.

This patch fixes a linker error that occurs when the following command
is specified: ld -update_registry /dev/null

This patch fixes a linker problem that may cause executables
to fail with a segmentation violation when the address of an 
uninitialized data symbol in a shared library is used as the initial
value of a global or static pointer variable.

This patch fixes a problem that may cause the third command
and other Atom-based instrumentation tools to fail.

This patch fixes a fatal assertion error reported by pixie, hiprof, third 
spike, cord, uprofile and odump object file tools for some executables linked 
at optimization level 2 (-O2) or greater.

This patch fixes a fatal error in /usr/bin/spike.


