[uClibc]uClibc supporting shared libs on mipsel

Tue Mar 11 20:06:52 UTC 2003

Hi folks

I'm trying to get a shared lib uClibc running on a Helio pda.  Its got a 
Toshiba TMPR3912AU, 75 MHz., 32-bit RISC processor running mipsel-linux 
(kernel 2.4.0-test1-ac22).  I'm using uClibc v0.9.18

I've got a glibc based distro running busybox on the thing.  I want to use 
uClibc for the space savings.

ldso/ldso/ldso.c grabs some kind of header from the Auxiliary Vector Table

header = (elfhdr *) auxvt[AT_BASE].a_un.a_ptr;

My uClibc crashes because header contains 0x0.

The docs in ldso.c said to look at fs/binfmt_elf.c where it makes a bunch of 
calls to NEW_AUX_ENT.  I added code to print out what NEW_AUX_ENT is 
sticking on the stack.  It gave me:

NEW_AUX_ENT nr=0 d=0 val=0
store id at addr=fffffb8                                                     
    (the leading 7 is cut off)
store val at addr7fffffbc

NEW_AUX_ENT nr=0 d=10 val=0
store id at addr=fffffb0
store val at addr7fffffb4

NEW_AUX_ENT nr=0 d=3 val=400034
store id at addr=fffff58
store val at addr7fffff5c

NEW_AUX_ENT nr=1 d=4 val=20
store id at addr=fffff60
store val at addr7fffff64

NEW_AUX_ENT nr=2 d=5 val=6
store id at addr=fffff68
store val at addr7fffff6c

NEW_AUX_ENT nr=3 d=6 val=1000
store id at addr=fffff70
store val at addr7fffff74

NEW_AUX_ENT nr=4 d=7 val=0
store id at addr=fffff78
store val at addr7fffff7c

NEW_AUX_ENT nr=5 d=8 val=0
store id at addr=fffff80
store val at addr7fffff84

NEW_AUX_ENT nr=6 d=9 val=402ec0
store id at addr=fffff88
store val at addr7fffff8c

NEW_AUX_ENT nr=7 d=b val=0
store id at addr=fffff90
store val at addr7fffff94

NEW_AUX_ENT nr=8 d=c val=0
store id at addr=fffff98
store val at addr7fffff9c

NEW_AUX_ENT nr=9 d=d val=0
store id at addr=fffffa0
store val at addr7fffffa4

NEW_AUX_ENT nr=a d=e val=0
store id at addr=fffffa8
store val at addr7fffffac

I threw code into ldso.c to print out the values it reads from the Auxiliary 
Vector Table (its below and everything is the same).  I also had it dump the 
address of where it was getting the value for header out of auxvt.

It tells me:

getting header from auxvt entry at address 0x7ffffcf0

This entry is loaded with:

loop filling auxvt with data at 0x7fffff78
address of auxvt getting the data is 0x7ffffcf0
auxv_entry a_type=00000007
  a_un.a_val=00000000
  a_un.a_ptr=00000000
  a_un.a_fcn=00000000

This matches what the kernel says it placed in this address.
So I know memory didn't get whacked.

What does uClibc want to be there?  Am I completely out of luck for running 
shared libs and uClibc?

BTW, I got a dump of the Aux Vec Tbl from kernel in the glibc based distro.  
Everything matched except for 1 entry.  But it wasn't the one uClibc is 
using as header.  That entry was the same as shown above.

I've been chasing this around for about a month and I'm running out of 
ideas.  Any help, ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Mark

Here's the contents of the Auxiliary Vector Table as found by uClibc's 
ldso.c:

loop filling auxvt with data at 0x7fffff58
address of auxvt getting the data is 0x7ffffcd0
auxv_entry a_type=00000003
  a_un.a_val=00400034
  a_un.a_ptr=00400034
  a_un.a_fcn=00400034
loop filling auxvt with data at 0x7fffff60
address of auxvt getting the data is 0x7ffffcd8
auxv_entry a_type=00000004
  a_un.a_val=00000020
  a_un.a_ptr=00000020
  a_un.a_fcn=00000020
loop filling auxvt with data at 0x7fffff68
address of auxvt getting the data is 0x7ffffce0
auxv_entry a_type=00000005
  a_un.a_val=00000006
  a_un.a_ptr=00000006
  a_un.a_fcn=00000006
loop filling auxvt with data at 0x7fffff70
address of auxvt getting the data is 0x7ffffce8
auxv_entry a_type=00000006
  a_un.a_val=00001000
  a_un.a_ptr=00001000
  a_un.a_fcn=00001000
loop filling auxvt with data at 0x7fffff78
address of auxvt getting the data is 0x7ffffcf0
auxv_entry a_type=00000007
  a_un.a_val=00000000
  a_un.a_ptr=00000000
  a_un.a_fcn=00000000
loop filling auxvt with data at 0x7fffff80
address of auxvt getting the data is 0x7ffffcf8
auxv_entry a_type=00000008
  a_un.a_val=00000000
  a_un.a_ptr=00000000
  a_un.a_fcn=00000000
loop filling auxvt with data at 0x7fffff88
address of auxvt getting the data is 0x7ffffd00
auxv_entry a_type=00000009
  a_un.a_val=00402ec0
  a_un.a_ptr=00402ec0
  a_un.a_fcn=00402ec0
loop filling auxvt with data at 0x7fffff90
address of auxvt getting the data is 0x7ffffd10
auxv_entry a_type=0000000b
  a_un.a_val=00000000
  a_un.a_ptr=00000000
  a_un.a_fcn=00000000
loop filling auxvt with data at 0x7fffff98
address of auxvt getting the data is 0x7ffffd18
auxv_entry a_type=0000000c
  a_un.a_val=00000000
  a_un.a_ptr=00000000
  a_un.a_fcn=00000000
loop filling auxvt with data at 0x7fffffa0
address of auxvt getting the data is 0x7ffffd20
auxv_entry a_type=0000000d
  a_un.a_val=00000000
  a_un.a_ptr=00000000
  a_un.a_fcn=00000000
loop filling auxvt with data at 0x7fffffa8
address of auxvt getting the data is 0x7ffffd28
auxv_entry a_type=0000000e
  a_un.a_val=00000000
  a_un.a_ptr=00000000
  a_un.a_fcn=00000000

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