From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Feb 5 16:09:38 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA26076 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Fri, 5 Feb 1999 16:09:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA26067 for ; Fri, 5 Feb 1999 16:09:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr02.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA11496; Fri, 5 Feb 1999 17:09:29 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr02.primenet.com(206.165.6.202) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpd011470; Fri Feb 5 17:09:25 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr02.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA18825; Fri, 5 Feb 1999 17:09:23 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199902060009.RAA18825@usr02.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Could somebody please test this patch? To: jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra) Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 00:09:23 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, mjacob@feral.com In-Reply-To: from "John Polstra" at Feb 5, 99 01:19:40 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > The assumption in the EABI that specifies ELF and specifies the > > offset at which the binary is linked is pretty ingrained in the > > binaries. > > But this is for the dynamic linker, not for executables. Never mind. When you said "dynamic linker" I thought "ld.so", which gets mapped to a specific address for Alpha binaries by the image activator, not the crt0.o (that's why you can dlopen from static executable on an Alpha; same for SVR4 and Solaris, for that matter). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message