On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 11:26:36AM +0200, Ralf Baechle wrote: > On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 06:24:02PM -0700, H . J . Lu wrote: > > > In fact, DT_MIPS_MAP_BASE_ADDR is the same as the p_addr field of the > > first loadable segment in the program header. I think it is included > > in the MIPS ABI to give the dynamic linker easy access to it. > > Afair there is no requirement for loadable segments to be sorted so you'd > have to go through all the program header table to find the one with the > lowest address which isn't necessarily the first segment. > > As the ABI doesn't give any guarantee that the lowest address in the segment > table is the value of DT_MIPS_BASE_ADDR I just tried to find a binary on > my IRIX boxen that violates this rule but I didn't find any. So please, > go ahead. It doesn't matter. DT_MIPS_BASE_ADDR is the "Base Address" in the gABI. glibc has to get the "Base Address" right. Otherwise, it won't work correctly for all cases. It is not mips specific. H.J.
