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Re: coping with PT_PHDR not being in loaded segment
- To: drepper@cygnus.com (Ulrich Drepper)
- Subject: Re: coping with PT_PHDR not being in loaded segment
- From: Franz Sirl <Franz.Sirl-kernel@lauterbach.com>
- Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 17:13:38 +0200
- Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@frob.com>, GNU libc hacker <libc-hacker@gnu.org>, ian@cygnus.com
- References: <Roland McGrath's message of "Thu, 6 May 1999 17:04:03 -0400"><199905062104.RAA04256@baalperazim.frob.com>
At 08:59 07.05.99 , Ulrich Drepper wrote:
>Roland McGrath <roland@frob.com> writes:
>
> > I think I agree with Ian's analysis here. The current libc (elf/dl-load.c)
> > still behaves the way he described for 2.0.7. If the phdr is not visible
> > in the loaded image, then I think we should make a malloc'd copy to save in
> > the l_phdr pointer.
>
>I've made appropriate changes now. They'll be in 2.1.1pre3. But I
>nevertheless think that adding the phdr to a segment is a good idea.
>The phdr is always needed so why not load it?
Has anyone successfully verified on any platform that the fix works? I
still get the FAIL "FAIL: shared (non PIC, load offset)" in the
ld-testsuite of gas-990418 on powerpc-linux-gnu. But now the testcase
segfaults instead of printing "BUG in dynamic linker".
Franz.