From: "Steven J. Hill" <sjhill@realitydiluted.com>
To: binutils@sources.redhat.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Understanding the default dynamic interpreter used by binutils/gcc....
Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2002 12:43:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D2B3B72.8030205@realitydiluted.com> (raw)
I am trying to understand the mechanism by with the dynamic linker/loader
fully-qualified name is placed in the '.interp' section. In the binutils,
the 'bfd/elf[32|64]-[ARCH].c' file has a #define ELF_DYNAMIC_INTERPRETER
that gets used in '_bfd_mips_elf_create_dynamic_sections'.
I am interested in the MIPS cross tools and hence we have:
#define ELF_DYNAMIC_INTERPRETER(abfd) \
(ABI_N32_P (abfd) ? "/usr/lib32/libc.so.1" : \
ABI_64_P (abfd) ? "/usr/lib64/libc.so.1" : \
"/usr/lib/libc.so.1")
However, gcc has the following in its 'specs' file:
%{!dynamic-linker:-dynamic-linker /lib/ld.so.1}}
For little endian Linux platforms, '/lib/ld.so.1' clearly shows up in
all the dynamic binaries. Why isn't '/lib/ld.so.1' used as the default
case in the above? Secondly, for all the other architectures the path
seems to be invalid. In the i386 case, ELF_DYNAMIC_INTERPRETER is
defined as '/usr/lib/libc.so.1' which on my RH7.2 system does not exist
except for '/usr/lib/libc.so' which contains:
/* GNU ld script
Use the shared library, but some functions are only in
the static library, so try that secondarily. */
GROUP ( /lib/libc.so.6 /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a )
Would someone please just give me a quick explanation of the mechanism
that places the final interpreter path/pathname into the output binary's
'.interp' section. Thanks so much.
-Steve
next reply other threads:[~2002-07-09 19:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-09 12:43 Steven J. Hill [this message]
2002-07-09 13:48 ` Ian Lance Taylor
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