Re: Porting of GLIBC on new platform

[Andreas Jaeger]

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> Hello
>
> We are trying to port GLIBC 2.2.5 on the ABACUS (processor similar to

That's an old glibc version...

> SPARC) platform. We have done much of the porting work.
>
> At this stage we are trying to get the 'ld-2.2.5.so' working. We are
> facing problems in this. We are trying to run this on again on our own
> Linux kernel for ABACUS processor. The GOT & PLT generated through the GCC
> for ld-2.2.5.so is causing the problems.
>
> We need some more information regarding the resolution of the GOT & PLT at
> the run time for ld-2.2.5.so

> In most of the docs we refered we came across GOT & PLT is being resolved
> by the ld.so itself for application  program but for ld.so who does this
> resolution of adresses in the GOT & PLT?

ld.so does the resolution itself - but only after it has bootstrapped
itself.


Andreas
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