questions regarding m68k/ColdFire dynamic/shared code

[Peter Barada]

>|> is turned into:
>|> 
>|>     lea _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_@GOTPC, %a5
>
>You can't use @GOTPC without a pc-relative addressing mode.  You would
>need @GOTOFF, but that does not exist for m68k.

The two instructions:

    lea _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_@GOTPC, %a5
    lea -6(%pc,%a5), %a5

is equivalent to:

    lea _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_OFFSET_@GOTPC(%pc),%a5

since the -6 offset adjusts for the 3 half words between the lea
constants and the extension word of the second instruction where %pc
is added to it.... 

But again, back to my question, is ld.so supposed to modify its own
.text segment? 

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