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Re: absolute syms in shared libs
- From: Alan Modra <amodra at bigpond dot net dot au>
- To: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 14:39:43 +0930
- Subject: Re: absolute syms in shared libs
- References: <20021004113437.U25369@bubble.sa.bigpond.net.au>
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 11:34:37AM +0930, Alan Modra wrote:
> Oops, our "jmp foo" goes to the shared lib load address + 0x12345678.
>
> This can be fixed, but I'm just wondering whether it's wise to
> change the current ld behaviour. Opinions?
Whoops. I was forgetting about ld.so behaviour with "absolute" syms.
It seems that ld.so relocates them to be relative to be load address
anyway. :-( Presumably this is for compatibility with sysv linkers
and loaders.
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Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre