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Date:      Mon, 08 Feb 1999 10:36:32 -0800 (PST)
From:      John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ldconfig and libraries
Message-ID:  <XFMail.990208103632.jdp@polstra.com>
In-Reply-To: <199902060712.AAA88283@harmony.village.org>

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Warner Losh wrote:
> In message <199902041927.LAA19876@vashon.polstra.com> John Polstra writes:
>: executables.  The RPATH string is in the .dynstr section, which
>: precedes text, data, and bss in the address space.  If you made the
> 
> Is it required to come before text, data and bss?  Or is that just
> convention that needn't be true.

Since it's read-only, it has to be in the only read-only segment at
execution time.  That's the text segment.  No matter where it is in
the text segment, it still precedes the data segment.

John
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  John Polstra                                               jdp@polstra.com
  John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.                        Seattle, Washington USA
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