Re: [LV] Global Offset Table question..

Dave Airlie (airlied@linux.ie)
Sat, 22 Sep 2001 22:29:59 +0100 (IST)


okay would I be in the right place if I was looking in gcc at

PIC_OFFSET_TABLE_REGNUM

Dave. dazed agus confused.

On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, Dave Airlie wrote:

>
> I've been trying to get dynamic loading on the Linux/VAX project going,
> and I've having trouble with the Global Offset Table and how it magically
> gets in to the ebx register on x86.. where is this done?
>
> I think I've looked at the kernel, gcc, binutils, ld.so 1.9, glibc 2.2.3
> and can't see exactly where this happens...
>
> Anyone care to enlighten my poor brain...
>
> Thanks,
> Dave.
>
>

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David Airlie, Software Engineer
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