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Re: Basic question on LDSO bootstrapping for MIPS...
- From: Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot de>
- To: sjhill at cotw dot com
- Cc: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 19:13:47 +0100
- Subject: Re: Basic question on LDSO bootstrapping for MIPS...
- References: <3C9A175F.7A431E2@cotw.com>
"Steven J. Hill" <sjhill@cotw.com> writes:
> Greetings.
>
> Just a quick question on the runtime linker code. The function
> _dl_start in elf/rtld.c initializes the first entry in the
> link_map with the call:
>
> bootstrap_map.l_addr = elf_machine_load_address ();
>
> I'm working on MIPS, this function in sysdeps/mips/dl-machine.h
> does some assembly code that returns the start address of the
> dynamic linker i.e. the dl_start function, correct? This address
The start of the object that contains the dynamic linker but in
*memory*.
Andreas
> should be the same as the AT_BASE entry in the auxillary vector
> tables, correct? Thanks.
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