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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: John David Anglin <dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>,
	klibc@zytor.com, parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org
Subject: Re: [klibc] [parisc-linux] klibc parisc64
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 15:55:56 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44C54FFC.1070807@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44C54CAE.5050302@zytor.com>

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
> (k)libc.so isn't a shared library in the ELF sense.  It's an executable.
> 

... specifically, as far as ELF (and the kernel) is concerned, it's the 
ELF interpreter; it's linked at a fixed address and the application 
invokes it with usual static jumps.

Very similar to old Linux a.out stuff.  Messy and primitive, but very fast.

	-hpa
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-24 22:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-24 18:27 [parisc-linux] klibc parisc64 Kyle McMartin
2006-07-24 19:01 ` John David Anglin
2006-07-24 19:28   ` Kyle McMartin
2006-07-24 19:50     ` John David Anglin
2006-07-24 19:35   ` John David Anglin
2006-07-24 22:41     ` [klibc] " H. Peter Anvin
2006-07-24 22:55       ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2006-07-24 23:11         ` John David Anglin
2006-07-24 23:17           ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-07-25  1:46             ` Kyle McMartin
2006-07-25  3:09               ` John David Anglin

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