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From: "H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>
To: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>
Cc: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: A new mips toolchain is available
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 12:38:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010612123843.A23567@lucon.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010612211151.A27552@bacchus.dhis.org>; from ralf@oss.sgi.com on Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 09:11:51PM +0200

On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 09:11:51PM +0200, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 09:40:55AM -0700, H . J . Lu wrote:
> 
> > FYI, my glibc includes
> > 
> >         * sysdeps/mips/dl-machine.h (MAP_BASE_ADDR): Commented out.
> 
> That means elf/dl-load.c will assume zero for the load address.  That will
> crash static programs which expect a value of 0x5ffe0000 and are trying to
> dlopen a shared library which uses a different value.  Most popular
> example is rpm.  So we need to keep ``#define MAP_BASE_ADDR(l) 0x5ffe0000''
> in there until we've got a real fix, unfortunately.
> 
> ABI requires us to properly support DT_MIPS_BASE_ADDRESS, so that needs
> to fixed for real anyway ...
> 

Please provide me some testcases. I will look into them.


H.J.

  reply	other threads:[~2001-06-12 19:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-06-12  4:03 A new mips toolchain is available H . J . Lu
2001-06-12 11:39 ` Ralf Baechle
2001-06-12 16:40   ` H . J . Lu
2001-06-12 19:11     ` Ralf Baechle
2001-06-12 19:38       ` H . J . Lu [this message]
2001-06-13  7:57 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-06-13 15:08   ` H . J . Lu
2001-06-13 15:22     ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-06-13 15:24       ` H . J . Lu
2001-06-13 15:39         ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-06-13 15:44           ` H . J . Lu
2001-06-13 18:48             ` Jun Sun
2001-06-13 20:55               ` Harald Koerfgen
2001-06-14 10:26                 ` Maciej W. Rozycki

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