Re: [Linux-ia64] Re: [Xpert] XFree 4.0.1 module loading

Stuart Anderson
2000-08-10T18:06:19Z

On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Bill Nottingham wrote:

> Exactly; the patch we have does that, it just doesn't quite work yet.
> They way the loader is (please, correct me if I'm wrong) is that
> it can load modules in various ways: there's an a.out module
> loader, a dlopen() based loader, and an 'elfloader' that does
> all the elf relocations/symbol resolution itself.

Correct. You can even mix & match between ELF, a.out & COFF on architectures
that support multiple formats. The dlopen() loader does it's bookkeeping
seperately, so you can't mix and match it with the other formats.

> If the X people want me to post what we have, I can do that;

That would be good.

> it's obviously hard to debug the module loader without the
> actual hardware. :)

Hardware does make it easier 8-)

Stuart

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