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Re: Pending fixes for all-ABIs builds
On Nov 09 2016, Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 11/09/2016 10:01 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> On Nov 09 2016, Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Does this mean the dynamic linker starts with it's GOT pointer as NULL,
>>> initializes that to point it to the malloc in elf/dl-minimal.c, and then,
>>> once libc.so.6 is relocated updates its GOT pointer to point to the malloc
>>> in libc.so.6?
>>
>> ld.so re-relocates itself after all static dependencies have been loaded
>> and relocated.
>
> And even at this point, the code is used for future dynamic linking
> operations?
"The code" refers to what?
Andreas.
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