Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 13:19:40 -0800 (PST) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, mjacob@feral.com Subject: Re: Could somebody please test this patch? Message-ID: <XFMail.990205131940.jdp@polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <199902052103.OAA23537@usr09.primenet.com>
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Terry Lambert wrote:
>
> I would be more concerned about binary compatability with OSF
> (or "DEC UNIX") software binary compatability breaking as a result
> of this change. That assumes that you brought it in from NetBSD
> in the first place, of course.
We didn't. Soren rolled this ELF loader from scratch, and the
Alpha inherited the original address "2L*MAXDSIZ" from the i386
implementation. My patch will make it possible to specify an
architecture-specific load address for the RTLD when appropriate.
> The assumption in the EABI that specifies ELF and specifies the
> offset at which the binary is linked is pretty ingrained in the
> binaries.
But this is for the dynamic linker, not for executables.
John
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