http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4583
--- Comment #2 from Johannes Pfau <johannesp...@gmail.com> 2010-08-06 02:22:55 PDT --- Yes I know, but the problem occurs even before the called function is executed: The PLT is a table containing executable code. If you do an position independent function call, you call into this PLT code, not directly into your target function. And these PLT instructions require EBX to be set to the GOT address. I strogly recommend reading http://www.skyfree.org/linux/references/ELF_Format.pdf especially the section about PLT, page 48 and page 49, I think the explanation there is very good. -- Configure issuemail: http://d.puremagic.com/issues/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: -------