Subject: re: sparc ELF kernels with a miniroot are broken.
To: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
From: Gandhi woulda smacked you <greywolf@starwolf.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 06/23/1999 22:52:23
On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, matthew green wrote:

# Sections:
# Idx Name          Size      VMA       LMA       File off  Algn
#   0 .text         00120468  f0004000  f0004000  00000074  2**2
#                   CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, CODE
#   1 .rodata       000199cd  f0124468  f0124468  001204dc  2**3
#                   CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA
#   2 .data         0001547c  f014de38  f014de38  00139eb0  2**3
#                   CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, DATA
#   3 .bss          00023d54  f0163300  f0163300  0014f400  2**8
#                   ALLOC
#   4 .comment      00004f10  00000000  00000000  0014f400  2**0
#                   CONTENTS, READONLY

Folks, I think we have a real winner here.  To my green-horned point
of view (WRT linker/compiler issues), it looks as though the .comment
section points to exactly the same place as the .bss does.  I'm
guessing that the READONLY attributes takes precedence on that chunk
of code for at least the first 0x4f10 bytes of code.

Am I mistaken, or is this an overwrite (i.e. shouldn't file off for
.comment really be 0x14f400 + 0x23d54, or 0x173154)?

				--*greywolf;