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On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 02:12:08PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> amd64 uses the equivalent of a .o for klds whereas other archs 
> use the equivalent of a .so.  Hence link_elf.c (shared object for !amd64) and 
> link_elf_object.c (handles plain object files).  Other platforms could be 
> switched to using plain objects IIRC, they are just using .so for their 
> default.

So I assume then that the amd64 .o is doesn't need to be relocated on load
which was why I needed to find the program header on i386.


-- John Birrell