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Date:      Wed, 13 Feb 2002 15:54:17 -0800
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        obrien@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        "Vladimir B. Grebenschikov" <vova@sw.ru>, FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ports/34908: libpng port makes bad dynamic library on -CURRENT
Message-ID:  <3C6AFCA9.ADA95152@mindspring.com>
References:  <E16b0VK-000PUb-00@vbook.express.ru> <20020213145902.GA20062@nagual.pp.ru> <20020213070251.A5321@dragon.nuxi.com> <1013613282.51362.9.camel@vbook.express.ru> <20020213075240.A5788@dragon.nuxi.com>

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David O'Brien wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 06:14:42PM +0300, Vladimir B.  Grebenschikov wrote:
> > building programm with -g gives no more information at all, I have tried
> > Linking aginst static library - works.
> 
> This suggests a problem with the runtime-linker (rtld), not binutils.

Works with the old binutils on 4.5, though... that suggests
that it's *not* a problem with the rtld, rather a problem
with what has changed.

There was a problem on the Alpha based on an assumption about
where one section started and another ended that was not true
with the new binutils, but was true with the old ones.  Perhaps
x86 has this same problem (i.e. assumption that's true with the
old binutils, but not the new, about section ordering), only it
is not as pronounced because of the alignment insensitivity of
the x86 relative to the alpha.

This implies that certain sections would be mapped twice, and
work on the x86, unless they got large enough to spill over
to a second page (the way ELF works).  I'd look there, first.

What would be useful, then, is an objdump on both programs and
both shared libraries to see the section layouts relative to
what ld.so is expecting.

-- Terry

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