Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 16:13:34 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: John Birrell <jb@what-creek.com> Cc: perforce@freebsd.org, "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Subject: Re: PERFORCE change 132153 for review Message-ID: <200801021613.35446.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20080102203913.GA44121@what-creek.com> References: <200712310531.lBV5VvH3092205@repoman.freebsd.org> <200801021412.09276.jhb@freebsd.org> <20080102203913.GA44121@what-creek.com>
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On Wednesday 02 January 2008 03:39:13 pm John Birrell wrote: > On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 02:12:08PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > > amd64 uses the equivalent of a .o for klds whereas other archs > > use the equivalent of a .so. Hence link_elf.c (shared object for !amd64) and > > link_elf_object.c (handles plain object files). Other platforms could be > > switched to using plain objects IIRC, they are just using .so for their > > default. > > So I assume then that the amd64 .o is doesn't need to be relocated on load > which was why I needed to find the program header on i386. It would appear from the link_elf_obj.c code that .o files are relocated on load. -- John Baldwin
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