prelink breaks fdpic support in a bunch of places

Carmelo AMOROSO carmelo.amoroso at st.com
Tue Nov 29 12:20:08 UTC 2011


On 29/11/2011 6.07, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Monday 28 November 2011 07:18:50 Filippo ARCIDIACONO wrote:
>> Definitively it needs to review handling of DL_LOADDADDR_TYPE
>> variables To extend the prelink support also for fdpic archs.
> 
> atm, i don't think anyone is running FDPIC on systems with virtual
> memory.  if you don't have virtual memory, then prelink will never
> work since it, by design, tries to assume the default load address
> is the same across invocations which requires virtual memory.
> 
> what's the next step ?  do you plan on trying to fix these problems
> with the prelink code ? -mike

we are committed to review this code and post patches for testing/review.

Filippo and Carmelo


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