Re: [parisc-linux] /lib/ld.so.1 (glibc) issues on parisc-linux 2.5kernel??

[Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>]

Ryan Bradetich <rbradetich at uswest dot net> writes:

|> Hello again,
|> 
|> I have been working on tracking this down some more, and I think I found
|> something odd.  I just wanted to verify this is an anomaly (and
|> potentially the problem) or if this is the correct behavior, understand
|> why.
|> 
|> 
|> I am starting to think the kernel is doing the correct thing and
|> glibc is causing the problem ... based on debug output from i386
|> and just my general understanding (or lack of understanding :))
|> of the elf file format.
|> 
|> The bootstrap_map.l_addr was printed using _dl_debug_printf right
|> after the following line in glibc-2.3.1/elf/rtld.c:
|> 
|> 	      ELF_DYNAMIC_RELOCATE (&bootstrap_map, 0, 0);
|> 
|> The ENTRY_POINT, _start, and user_entry line was added as the first
|> line of code in the function dl_main in glibc-2.3.1/elf/rtld.c.
|> 
|> This is the debug output on hppa:
|> ---------------------------------
|> rbrad at vega:~/glibc-2.3.1/hppa-linux/obj/elf$ ./ld.so --verify /bin/sh
|> 
|> 05626:  bootstrap_map.l_addr: 41000000
|> 05626:  ENTRY_POINT: 41027162 _start: 41027162 user_entry: 41001ff0

hppa is using function descriptors, AFAIK.  So you'll have to do something
similar to what ia64 and ppc64 are doing.

Andreas.

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