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Re: evolution vs prelink on debian ppc sid
- From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
- To: Roland McGrath <roland at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>, Jack Howarth <howarth at bromo dot med dot uc dot edu>, libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 15:33:28 -0700
- Subject: Re: evolution vs prelink on debian ppc sid
- References: <200209262224.g8QMO3l21375@magilla.sf.frob.com>
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Roland McGrath wrote:
> You should use `const' for the TAGS table. Otherwise, though it's fairly
> ugly this seems like the only reasonable thing to do. In fact, there is
> nothing in the ELF specs that disallows putting the string table elsewhere
> in the first place or moving it around with some other tool in any object.
We have extended the ELF spec for prelink. Why not add one more thing,
a DT_DYNSYM_SZ entry with the required information? Let not do anything
which costs unnecessaily at runtime. I can probably even get this in
the official gABI.
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