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Re: ARM long branch stubs: shared libs


Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

> This part is correct.  The comment is not clear, but the goal is to
> mark undefined weak symbols as dynamic at this point.  Branches should
> go to the PLT entry.  I'm not sure what happens if you call that PLT
> entry, though, and there is no definition at runtime.  Ideally,
> nothing would happen, but I'm sure glibc does not implement that.

  Shouldn't it be a really serious runtime failure?  Jumping to *ABS* zero
works for me :-)

    cheers,
      DaveK


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