Re: Elf loader question: who updates .rela.dyn entries for load_bias compensation?

[Hagen Paul Pfeifer]

* John Z. Bohach | 2006-05-05 09:44:15 [-0700]:

>I'm porting Linux to a new architecture, and ran into an issue with
>the .rela.dyn entries not being adjusted to compensate for the load_bias
>of an ET_DYN shared executable:  in particular, this is the ld.so itself that
>doesn't get its .rela.dyn entries incremented by +load_bias.  This makes
>references from _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_ refer to the old compile-time
>vma addresses, which of course causes runtime  segfaults (appropriately
>enough) with ld.so.

This is an issue of the link-editor.

HGN



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