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SubjectRe: vdso feature requests from the Go people
On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 10:15 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
> On 06/12/2014 09:36 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>>
>> If we were to implement both, maybe we'd actually want to provide
>> something like:
>>
>> struct vdso_entry {
>> unsigned long vdso_entry_struct_size; /* so we can add fields later on */
>> void *func;
>> unsigned int max_stack; /* zero if not known */
>> };
>>
>
> How different is this really from the .dynsym table -- other than that
> you have to find the latter via the dynamic segment?
>
> The hash part is just to speed up lookup...

As far as I know, there's no reliable way to just read the dynsym
table -- the thing doesn't have a specified length, which is what
broke Go in the first place.

Parsing the ELF dynamic tables is kind of annoyingly complicated, and
understanding the format is a real PITA -- the documentation I've been
able to find is outright terrible.

--Andy


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