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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
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Subject: Re: in-kernel linking issues
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On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 14:37:01 -0800
Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> wrote:

> So you said you had a userland test harness?

Yes, which is fine for testing basic relocs, but misses some subtle issues.
[ Sorry for the delayed reply, I only got this mail via kernel.org: did you
  get a bounce from rusty@rustcorp.com.au? ]

> Some problems I've seen browsing the code:

Thanks for this.  It adds even more weight to your ET_DYN argument as well.
I'll need to play with that linker script some more (on PPC, binfmt_misc.o
is 13000 bytes, binfmt_misc.so becomes 156128 bytes 8)

There's still the issue of PPC and PPC64 which can only jump 24-bits away,
and so currently insert trampolines which have to be allocated with the
module, but that should be no uglier than currently.  (They could use a
special allocator, too, but with only 16M, they have to ensure noone else
uses those addresses).

PPC64 also frobs the TOC ptr (r2) in the trampolines: I don't have a
ppc64 box in front of me, but I imagine -shared will do the right thing
there too.

Thanks!
Rusty.
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