On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 10:29:48PM +0000, Charles Hannum wrote:
> 
> So, I'm going to make one more MI change in ld.elf_so, that will
> impact x86_64.
> 
> Basically, I'm going to eliminate the vestiges of
> -DRTLD_RELOCATE_SELF.  This means that the flag itself, and all the
> `dodebug' arguments passed down to various functions, will all go
> away.
> 
> All platforms will be expected to prebind ld.elf_so before calling
> main().  I have already adjust 6 platforms to do this right; the only
> that does not is x86_64.  Fixing it is essentially a matter of copying
> 20 lines of code from one of the other mdreloc.c implementations, and
> adding a stub to call the self-relocate function.
> 
> The upside of this change is that ld.elf_so will be smaller and
> slightly faster.  Also LD_DEBUG will work correctly on all platforms.
> 
> Any further questions may be directed to me.

Thanks for your work!

BTW, when will you deal with "bind_now" which is currently broken? It
would be as simple as writing something like _rtld_relocate_plt_objects()...

Jun-Young

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