[PATCH/RFA] Don't relocate SunOS-style a.out dynamic executables

[Mark Kettenis]

   Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 16:39:45 -0700
   From: Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com>

   On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 20:56:34 +0200 (CEST)
   Mark Kettenis <kettenis@chello.nl> wrote:

   > Since I was curious whether our SunOS-style a.out shared library
   > support still worked, I fired up my virtual VAX[1] and installed
   > NetBSD 1.5.2 on it.  Alas, GDB didn't quite work, and indeed the
   > solib-sunos.c code is to blame.  Some debugging revealed that the code
   > was relocating the main executable over two bytes.  If you know a bit
   > about the VAX and look at the code it is pretty easy to see why.  VAX
   > functions start at an offset of two bytes from the function's address.

   Those two bytes are a register save mask?  (Not that it matters; just
   trying to remember something that I knew a very long time ago.)

Yup.

   > If so, I'd like to apply the attached patch.

   Sure.  It's okay with me.

Committed now, thanks (and sorry for the delay),

Mark