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Subject: Re: ELF dynamic loader name [was: sbrk(2) broken]
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Peter Wemm wrote:

> There are a whole bunch of references to the ld-elf.so.1 name.  Not just 
> in our tree, but in external 3rd party code.  Even things like gdb 
> "know" how to handle ld-elf.so.1.  Getting those upstream folks to add 
> additional strcmp()'s for ld-elf-i386.so.1, ld-elf-amd64.so.1 etc will 
> be hard enough, and it will add another hurdle that minor platform 
> maintainers have to overcome.  ld-elf-mips-be-4Kc.so.1 anybody?  (ok, 
> that last one is a stretch)

P.S. I wonder why gdb(1) and friends need that strcmp()'s and don't use 
appropriate field from the elf header. I am pretty sure that dynamic 
linker name is embedded on link time in there. At least that's the very 
first string that is returned by invoking string(1) on any dynamic binary.

-Maxim