Re: Load addresses for ELF program headers on ARM

[Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com>]

On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 07:46:58PM -0500, Matt Fischer wrote:
> The linker created two program headers, one for TEXT, and one for
> DATA.  The TEXT one looks fine--both vaddr and paddr are at 0.  The
> DATA segment, however, has a problem.  It's been given a vaddr of
> 0x10000000, and a paddr of 0x000000b4.  The former is the section's
> relocation address, and the latter is its load address.  However, the
> ARM spec for ELF states that segments should have vaddr set to their
> load address, and paddr set to 0.

Which ARM ELF spec are you talking about?  An old and buggy one, I'd
guess.  If the one you're looking at says that it is clearly in
conflict with the parent SysV ELF ABI spec.  This spec
http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.ihi0044b/IHI0044B_aaelf.pdf
is silent on p_vaddr and p_paddr.

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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM