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"Steven J. Hill" <sjhill@cotw.com> writes: > Greetings. > > Just a quick question on the runtime linker code. The function > _dl_start in elf/rtld.c initializes the first entry in the > link_map with the call: > > bootstrap_map.l_addr = elf_machine_load_address (); > > I'm working on MIPS, this function in sysdeps/mips/dl-machine.h > does some assembly code that returns the start address of the > dynamic linker i.e. the dl_start function, correct? This address The start of the object that contains the dynamic linker but in *memory*. Andreas > should be the same as the AT_BASE entry in the auxillary vector > tables, correct? Thanks. -- Andreas Jaeger SuSE Labs aj@suse.de private aj@arthur.inka.de http://www.suse.de/~aj
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