Problem with main() defined in shared object
marcus hall
marcus@tuells.org
Wed Mar 24 21:18:00 GMT 2004
On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 09:50:44AM -0700, marcus hall wrote:
] When I build xx, I do get an undefined reference to main (ultimately
] from glibc/csu/arm/elf/start.S), as I believe I should
On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 12:40:15PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> No, you shouldn't. If shared.so is being used by ld, then it'll
> resolve main to there.
Yes, sorry, I didn't type what I really meant. I meant to say that
when I built xx I had an outstanding reference to main, that should
be resolved at run-time by shared.so (ie: nm xx shows a line:
U main
).
When I run this test on my desktop (i386, glibc 2.2.93) I get the output:
11967: transferring control: ./xx
11967:
11967: symbol=main; lookup in file=./xx
11967: symbol=main; lookup in file=/home/marcus/rje/xx/shared.so
11967: binding file ./xx to /home/marcus/rje/xx/shared.so: normal symbol `main'11967: symbol=__errno_location; lookup in file=./xx
11967: symbol=__errno_location; lookup in file=/home/marcus/rje/xx/shared.so
11967: symbol=__errno_location; lookup in file=/lib/i686/libc.so.6
11967: symbol=__errno_location; lookup in file=/lib/ld-linux.so.2
11967: binding file /lib/i686/libc.so.6 to /lib/i686/libc.so.6: normal symbol `__errno_location' [GLIBC_2.0]
Got inside main
The "transferring control:" line is in __libc_start_main(), just before it
calls main(). The "symbol=" lines come from elf/do_lookup.h, which
does not get overtly called from __libc_start_main(), so I assume that
when xx is intially loaded, the pointer to main is supposed to be set to
a resolution routine to bind it to the proper address.
However, since it seems that the main pointer is still zero, this setup
is somehow not being performed.
Where should I be looking to find the code that sets up the pointers to
this lazy-binding routine?
Thanks!
Marcus Hall
marcus@tuells.org
More information about the Libc-alpha
mailing list