Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 17:01:59 -0800 (PST) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: mjacob@feral.com, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Could somebody please test this patch? Message-ID: <XFMail.990205170159.jdp@polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <199902060009.RAA18825@usr02.primenet.com>
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Terry Lambert wrote:
>> > 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",
Sheesh, read the article or read the patch. It's about the image
loader in the kernel mapping the dynamic linker into the process
address space.
> which gets mapped to a specific address for Alpha binaries by the
> image activator,
Fine, then _tell_ me what the specific address is supposed to be,
if there even really is one. I know there's a specific address in
SVR4/i386, but as yet you've given me no reason to think the address
is wired down on the Alpha. Just saying it's wired down doesn't do
anybody a bit of good if you don't state what the address is supposed
to be.
> not the crt0.o (that's why you can dlopen from static executable on
> an Alpha; same for SVR4 and Solaris, for that matter).
As I've told you at least four times in the mailing lists, that is
misinformation. I know from first-hand experience (and from man
pages) that you can't use dlopen in static executables under SVR4.
And I and others have quoted every variety of Solaris man page to you,
which specifically say you can't do it. I wish you'd quit spreading
it around that you can, because it's utterly false.
John
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