From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 8 10:36:36 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA09448 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 10:36:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA09442 for ; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 10:36:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA18277; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 10:36:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id KAA43758; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 10:36:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199902060712.AAA88283@harmony.village.org> Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 10:36:32 -0800 (PST) Organization: Polstra & Co., Inc. From: John Polstra To: Warner Losh Subject: Re: ldconfig and libraries Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 --- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." -- H. L. Mencken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message