Re: Re: call_init in libc6 2.3.6.ds1-11

On 2/18/07, Carlos O'Donell <[email protected]> wrote:
> In dl-machine.h (elf_machine_runtime_setup), we look for the PLT stub
> marker e.g. sig = {{0x00,0xc0,0xff,0xee, 0xde,0xad,0xbe,0xef}}. When
> we find that marker we assume teh GOT is *right* against the end of
> the PLT. The PLTGOT entry is the *second* entry in the GOT e.g.
> 0x40df252f, which seems plausible.

To be truthful I don't understand why we rummage around the relocs in
elf_machine_runtime_setup, we have the linkmap for the object we are
loading, there should be no need to do this.

c.