sh-nto --small-stubs

[Graeme Peterson]

Cool idea.  I am trying it out now, using the ld command
line option "-z now", which sets info.flags |= DF_BIND_NOW.

I'll let you know if it works for me.

GP

> 
> I've been thinking about this a little more.  It occured
> to me that these small stubs could be made to work for a
> "full-blown" dynamic linker, provided it was told that lazy
> binding was not possible on the shared object.  To
> allow this, it would be necessary to put DT_BIND_NOW in the
> .dynamic section.
> 
> Then I noticed that there's already some mechanism
> for this ... the DF_BIND_NOW flag in link_info.flags.
> Would it be possible to control the selection of small
> stubs based on this flag, instead of a separate option?
> 
> (And is it really the case that the short plt entries would
> work for other dynamic linkers provided they did all the
> binding at load time, or have I missed something?)
> 
> Steve.
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