prelink breaks fdpic support in a bunch of places

Mike Frysinger vapier at gentoo.org
Wed Nov 30 16:12:06 UTC 2011


On Tuesday 29 November 2011 07:20:08 Carmelo AMOROSO wrote:
> On 29/11/2011 6.07, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Monday 28 November 2011 07:18:50 Filippo ARCIDIACONO wrote:
> >> Definitively it needs to review handling of DL_LOADDADDR_TYPE
> >> variables To extend the prelink support also for fdpic archs.
> > 
> > atm, i don't think anyone is running FDPIC on systems with virtual
> > memory.  if you don't have virtual memory, then prelink will never
> > work since it, by design, tries to assume the default load address
> > is the same across invocations which requires virtual memory.
> > 
> > what's the next step ?  do you plan on trying to fix these problems
> > with the prelink code ?
> 
> we are committed to review this code and post patches for testing/review.

thanks.  if there's any patches you want me to test, i'll give them a spin.
-mike
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