In message <1002521531.1278.1.camel@trinity.ihack.net>, you write: 

-> > Index: symbol.c
-> > ===================================================================
-> > RCS file: /cvsroot/basesrc/libexec/ld.elf_so/symbol.c,v
-> > retrieving revision 1.10
-> > diff -b -u -r1.10 symbol.c
-> > --- symbol.c	2000/10/11 20:46:08	1.10
-> > +++ symbol.c	2001/10/07 03:22:47
-> > @@ -163,7 +163,7 @@
-> >  	bool in_plt;
-> >  {
-> >  	Elf_Addr symnum = ELF_R_SYM(r_info);
-> > -	const Elf_Sym  *ref = NULL;
-> > +	const Elf_Sym  *ref;
-> >  	const Elf_Sym  *def;
-> >  	const Elf_Sym  *symp;
-> >  	const Obj_Entry *obj;
-> > @@ -171,10 +171,10 @@
-> >  	const Objlist_Entry *elm;
-> >  	unsigned long   hash;
-> >  
-> > -	if (name == NULL) {
-> >  		ref = refobj->symtab + symnum;
-> > +	if (name == NULL)
-> >  		name = refobj->strtab + ref->st_name;
-> > -	}
-> > +
-> >  	hash = _rtld_elf_hash(name);
-> >  	def = NULL;
-> >  	defobj = NULL;
-> > @@ -227,6 +227,7 @@
-> >  	 * symbol as having the value zero.
-> >  	 */
-> >  	if (def == NULL && ELF_ST_BIND(ref->st_info) == STB_WEAK) {
-> > +		rdbg(1, ("  returning _rtld_sym_zero@_rtld_objmain"));
-> >  		def = &_rtld_sym_zero;
-> >  		defobj = _rtld_objmain;
-> >  	}
-> 
-> If I read this correctly, "ref" was previously uninitialized here in the
-> name!=NULL case.  Is that correct?

Yah.  Turns out every other caller (but the MIPS code) passed in NULL, so
it didn't much matter.

--rafal

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Rafal Boni                                                  rafal@mediaone.net