On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 9:10 PM, Mike Frysinger <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sunday 25 March 2012 23:00:59 Mike Frysinger wrote: >> On Sunday 25 March 2012 17:52:51 Khem Raj wrote: >> > On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Joakim Tjernlund wrote: >> > > Khem Raj wrote on 2012/03/25 20:23:04: >> > >> On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Joakim Tjernlund wrote: >> > >> >> On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 12:58 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: >> > >> >> > On Sunday 25 March 2012 03:23:38 Khem Raj wrote: >> > >> >> >> On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 11:58 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: >> > >> >> >> > The _start symbol is the default entry point for ELFs, so >> > >> >> >> > there should be no need to manually specify this. The >> > >> >> >> > background motivation is that this causes issues for ports >> > >> >> >> > that have a symbol prefix (like Blackfin) and so they don't >> > >> >> >> > have a "_start" symbol -- it's named "__start". >> > >> >> >> >> > >> >> >> on MIPS its also __start unlike others where it is _start >> > >> >> > >> > >> >> > ok, i'll ponder exposing __USER_LABEL_PREFIX__ to the build >> > >> >> > system somehow then so it automatically selects the right >> > >> >> > "_start" >> > >> >> >> > >> >> if binutils/ld is configured for right emulation (which it should >> > >> >> be) that should take care of it automatically >> > >> >> though so your patch is ok. >> > >> > >> > >> > I think the problem is that ldso.c expects start to be named _start >> > >> > so you can't just rename it __start. >> > >> > You could define _start = __start in arch code that need it though. >> > >> >> > >> isnt it arch specific function in ldso/<arch>/dl-startup.h ? >> > > >> > > It is in ldso/ldso/ldso.c last I checked. >> > >> > right thats the consumer of the definition so I think adding alias for >> > __start in the definition will fix this problem. >> >> it should be easy to add aliases via .set for both mips and blackfin (and >> prob h8300, although that doesn't have a ldso port) so _start == __start. >> i don't think there would be runtime penalties for this as long as the >> symbol has hidden visibility. > > ok, by keeping the -Wl,-e,_start and adding an alias to the Blackfin code, > everyone should be happy. symbol aliases are free since we throw away this > symbol from the public ABI. thanks guys!
I use _start to stop gdb when debugging ld.so > -mike _______________________________________________ uClibc mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/uclibc
