From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: ralf@uni-koblenz.de
To: Ian Lance Taylor <ian@cygnus.com>
Cc: kk@ddeorg.soft.net, gas2@cygnus.com, bfd@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: GNU linker on mips
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 19:11:00 -0000
Message-id: <19990203130347.A5244@uni-koblenz.de>
References: <19990202114543.F1596@uni-koblenz.de> <199902030237.VAA28892@subrogation.cygnus.com> <199902030237.VAA28892@subrogation.cygnus.com>
X-SW-Source: 1999/msg00013.html

On Tue, Feb 02, 1999 at 09:37:17PM -0500, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:

> I don't know of any system which uses a zero value for __start.  Most
> systems protect the zero page to catch null pointer dereferences.  Why
> do you expect __start to be zero?  What sorts of problems are you
> seeing?

Sorry, braino on my side.  I meant SHLIB_TEXT_START_ADDR, not __start.  MIPS
systems typically use 0x5ffe0000, not zero and that triggered kernel bugs,
glibc bugs and some undesireable behaviour in the Linux kernel, glibc dynamic
linker and others I forgot.  It did not trigger any bfd / gas / binutils bugs.

  Ralf