Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy at goop.org> writes: > Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> Ok. If that is all this may be a difference that makes no difference. >> binutils has a bad habit of looking at sections (which are fully >> optional) instead of segments on ET_EXEC and ET_DYN objects. Only >> ET_REL objects (.o files) are required to have sections. >> > > The Xen domain loader will have to be changed to deal with that, which > isn't too much of a problem. Ok. Please fix the Xen domain loader to not look at sections. It is a bug for any kind of executable loader to look at anything other then segments. > My main concern is the randomness of it, and whether it will fail in > some more harmful way on other versions of binutils. Reasonable and it's probably worth letting the binutils developer know. I do agree that it is weird. It might be that something in binutils doesn't like us dropping some of the notes. >> So I recommend for testing write a 100 line program that includes >> elf.h and reads out the note segment. If all is well we can split >> this code out. >> > > The Xen readnotes utility is essentially that. I'll hack it. Sounds good. Eric
