From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: Peter Samuelson <peter@cadcamlab.org>
Cc: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@veritas.com>,
David Hinds <dhinds@valinux.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] removal of "static foo = 0" from drivers/ide (test11)
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 14:23:06 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7349.975468186@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 28 Nov 2000 17:53:48 MDT." <20001128175348.J8881@wire.cadcamlab.org>
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 17:53:48 -0600,
Peter Samuelson <peter@cadcamlab.org> wrote:
>Binary patching? If you are binary patching something you need to get
>the exact location, one way or another. Whatever tool you use to
>extract the location of a symbol in an object file, that same tool
>should tell you which section it is in. If the tool only looks in
>'.data', it is flawed.
The whole point of bss is that it does not have any space allocated in
the object on disk. bss is just a section entry saying "this size, at
this location", the area is allocated and zeroed at load time. Binary
patches against bss on disk cannot work, there is nothing to patch.
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Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-11-28 20:58 [PATCH] removal of "static foo = 0" from drivers/ide (test11) David Hinds
2000-11-28 21:08 ` Tigran Aivazian
2000-11-28 23:53 ` Peter Samuelson
2000-11-29 3:23 ` Keith Owens [this message]
2000-11-29 3:35 ` Peter Samuelson
2000-11-29 7:48 ` Tigran Aivazian
2000-11-29 14:00 ` Peter Samuelson
2000-11-29 14:08 ` Tigran Aivazian
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-11-29 16:16 Darryl Miles
2000-11-29 23:54 ` Russell King
2000-11-21 21:25 Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2000-11-21 22:55 ` J . A . Magallon
2000-11-21 23:04 ` Tigran Aivazian
2000-11-21 23:18 ` J . A . Magallon
2000-11-21 23:26 ` Tigran Aivazian
2000-11-21 23:30 ` J . A . Magallon
2000-11-23 11:01 ` Rusty Russell
2000-11-24 21:40 ` Vojtech Pavlik
[not found] ` <20001128031933.52DB981F5@halfway.linuxcare.com.au>
2000-11-28 8:59 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2000-11-24 23:13 ` J . A . Magallon
2000-11-25 12:01 ` Russell King
2000-11-25 11:50 ` Russell King
2000-11-25 23:56 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2000-11-22 0:09 ` Jeff Garzik
2000-11-22 11:40 ` Russell King
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