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| author | Carmelo Amoroso <carmelo.amoroso@st.com> | 2011-05-04 08:31:16 +0200 |
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| committer | Carmelo Amoroso <carmelo.amoroso@st.com> | 2011-05-04 08:31:16 +0200 |
| commit | 3004ce0c9619f89bf8e64931edd696bf4df8d2e1 (patch) | |
| tree | f03f898fa5c2506c4e30f5f89ce097acf01bc016 /ldso/ldso/dl-startup.c | |
| parent | 3b3285b1b7c02d36c74a6ae265fdb02ca991c96b (diff) | |
| parent | 4916fd889ec1c60710faa528a3ccdb50973198e2 (diff) | |
Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into prelink
* origin/master: (32 commits)
libubacktrace: fix backtrace support on arm-eabi, which needs libgcc_eh linked too
getaddrinfo.c: fix incorrect check for ERANGE from gethostbyaddr_r
getaddrinfo.c: improve code readability. No functional changes
string: remove unused variable
x86_64: silence warning if !TLS
buildsys: prettify ssp.c handling
madvise is LINUX_SPECIFIC
test_nptl: fix expected result for tst-cputimer[123]
test_nptl: fix expected result for tst-clock2 test
buildsys: make $(LOCAL_INSTALL_PATH) phony
ether_aton: reject invalid input
tests: disable ether tests if !HAS_SOCKET
inet: add ether_aton testcase
sysconf: clock_getres depends on HAS_REALTIME
__rt_sigwaitinfo: depends on HAS_REALTIME
buildsys: minor fixes in Makefile.arch for C6X
buildsys: minor fixes in Makefile.arch for microblaze
libubacktrace: enabled for all archs indeed.
sparc: don't access fp registers when configured for no fpu
libubacktrace: generic implementation based dwarf
...
Conflicts:
ldso/ldso/dl-elf.c
ldso/ldso/mips/elfinterp.c
ldso/ldso/x86_64/elfinterp.c
Signed-off-by: Carmelo Amoroso <carmelo.amoroso@st.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'ldso/ldso/dl-startup.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | ldso/ldso/dl-startup.c | 16 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/ldso/ldso/dl-startup.c b/ldso/ldso/dl-startup.c index 4799846ee..fa7972d90 100644 --- a/ldso/ldso/dl-startup.c +++ b/ldso/ldso/dl-startup.c @@ -32,8 +32,8 @@ /* * The main trick with this program is that initially, we ourselves are not - * dynamicly linked. This means that we cannot access any global variables or - * call any functions. No globals initially, since the Global Offset Table + * dynamically linked. This means that we cannot access any global variables + * or call any functions. No globals initially, since the Global Offset Table * (GOT) is initialized by the linker assuming a virtual address of 0, and no * function calls initially since the Procedure Linkage Table (PLT) is not yet * initialized. @@ -55,12 +55,12 @@ * * Fortunately, the linker itself leaves a few clues lying around, and when the * kernel starts the image, there are a few further clues. First of all, there - * is Auxiliary Vector Table information sitting on which is provided to us by - * the kernel, and which includes information about the load address that the - * program interpreter was loaded at, the number of sections, the address the - * application was loaded at and so forth. Here this information is stored in - * the array auxvt. For details see linux/fs/binfmt_elf.c where it calls - * NEW_AUX_ENT() a bunch of time.... + * is Auxiliary Vector Table information sitting on the stack which is provided + * to us by the kernel, and which includes information about the address + * that the program interpreter was loaded at, the number of sections, the + * address the application was loaded at, and so forth. Here this information + * is stored in the array auxvt. For details see linux/fs/binfmt_elf.c where + * it calls NEW_AUX_ENT() a bunch of times.... * * Next, we need to find the GOT. On most arches there is a register pointing * to the GOT, but just in case (and for new ports) I've added some (slow) C |