Re: Dumper problems and a possible solutions

[Andreas Schwab]

Rich Felker <address@hidden> writes:

> With the approach of dumping a C array containing references to
> offsets within itself, this is completely transparent to the
> application. The linker (ld) produces the right R_${ARCH}_RELATIVE
> relocation records in the data segment and the dynamic linker applies
> them at runtime.

1. Relocations are highly architecture dependent.  2. Relocations only
apply to compiler-generated references, not runtime references.

Andreas.

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