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From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
To: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Cc: Suprateeka R Hegde <hegdesmailbox@gmail.com>,
	Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>,
	gnu-gabi@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: RFC: ABI support for special memory area
Date: Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <db640770-65e7-6dc3-e9bc-85d86bc50387@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMe9rOoJX8C9Orufdis3ifJL8MuZc=qErBFLeOnfWOyMZHKD3A@mail.gmail.com>

On 03/16/2017 07:22 PM, H.J. Lu wrote:

>> If the latter, why can't you use the existing ELF constructor mechanism for
>> this?  As far as I understand it, the call to __gnu_mbind_setup would just
>> happen before the constructor calls.
>
> That is correct.  The issue is to access the ELF segment header for each
> loaded object only once.  There is no good way to get this info from
> constructor.

I think you can get the data in a pretty straightforward manner using 
dlinfo.

I expect that libraries such as bdwgc might want to use the 
__gnu_mbind_setup callback as well, just to register freshly loaded 
shared objects and their data sections.  Can we make this work for 
multiple users?

Thanks,
Florian

  reply	other threads:[~2017-03-20 14:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-01  0:00 H.J. Lu
2017-01-01  0:00 ` Carlos O'Donell
2017-01-01  0:00   ` H.J. Lu
2017-01-01  0:00     ` Carlos O'Donell
2017-01-01  0:00       ` H.J. Lu
2017-01-01  0:00         ` Florian Weimer
2017-01-01  0:00           ` H.J. Lu
2017-01-01  0:00 ` Suprateeka R Hegde
2017-01-01  0:00   ` H.J. Lu
2017-01-01  0:00     ` Suprateeka R Hegde
2017-01-01  0:00       ` H.J. Lu
2017-01-01  0:00         ` Carlos O'Donell
2017-01-01  0:00           ` Suprateeka R Hegde
2017-01-01  0:00             ` H.J. Lu
2017-01-01  0:00               ` Suprateeka R Hegde
2017-01-01  0:00                 ` H.J. Lu
2017-01-01  0:00                   ` H.J. Lu
2017-01-01  0:00                     ` Florian Weimer
2017-01-01  0:00                       ` H.J. Lu
2017-01-01  0:00                         ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2017-01-01  0:00                           ` H.J. Lu
2017-01-01  0:00                             ` Florian Weimer
2017-01-01  0:00                               ` H.J. Lu
2017-01-01  0:00                     ` Suprateeka R Hegde
2017-01-01  0:00                       ` H.J. Lu
2017-01-01  0:00                         ` Suprateeka R Hegde
2017-01-01  0:00                           ` H.J. Lu
2017-01-01  0:00                             ` Suprateeka R Hegde
2017-01-01  0:00                               ` H.J. Lu
2017-01-01  0:00                                 ` Suprateeka R Hegde
2017-01-01  0:00                                   ` H.J. Lu
2017-01-01  0:00                                     ` Suprateeka R Hegde
2017-01-01  0:00                                       ` H.J. Lu

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