On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 11:54:31AM -0700, Ryan Murray wrote: > Attached is a patch that changes the MAP_BASE_ADDR macro to one that Dan > mentioned in his question about a backwards-compatible change to ld.so > that allows both new and old shlibs to run. > > This seems to work -- I've run perl (with an old-binutils libperl.so), with > a new-binutils built ld.so and libc.so, and it works fine. The comment above > the change should probably be updated to indicate the new state of things, > as well... > > Comments? Wrong. You're replacing a hack with something even more evil. Right thing would be to make sure that the dynamic table is loaded before MAP_BASE_ADDR gets dereferenced; then you can reactivate the commented out code. Ralf
