[klibc] question about KLIBCSHAREDFLAGS
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Wed Dec 19 13:02:35 PST 2018
On 11/23/18 8:09 AM, eno wrote:
> Dear experts,
>
> I'm new in klibc and currently studying the source codes.
> I'm looking at the codes in usr/klibc/arch and can't figure out why
> does, e.g. in x86_64, the text segment offset differ from system v
> x86_64 abi (which is 4 Mb)? How does this value was calculated?
>
> Thanks in advance!
> Nikita.
It is set so that klibc.so is loaded at an address where it doesn't
conflict with the load address of an executable, but is still within
range of an intramodule control transfer (which is architecture-dependent.)
-hpa
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