GNU linker on mips
ralf@uni-koblenz.de
ralf@uni-koblenz.de
Thu Feb 4 18:54:00 GMT 1999
On Tue, Feb 02, 1999 at 09:37:17PM -0500, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> I don't know of any system which uses a zero value for __start. Most
> systems protect the zero page to catch null pointer dereferences. Why
> do you expect __start to be zero? What sorts of problems are you
> seeing?
Sorry, braino on my side. I meant SHLIB_TEXT_START_ADDR, not __start. MIPS
systems typically use 0x5ffe0000, not zero and that triggered kernel bugs,
glibc bugs and some undesireable behaviour in the Linux kernel, glibc dynamic
linker and others I forgot. It did not trigger any bfd / gas / binutils bugs.
Ralf
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