-/* Relocate the main executable. This function should be called upon
- stopping the inferior process at the entry point to the program.
- The entry point from BFD is compared to the PC and if they are
- different, the main executable is relocated by the proper amount.
-
- As written it will only attempt to relocate executables which
- lack interpreter sections. It seems likely that only dynamic
- linker executables will get relocated, though it should work
- properly for a position-independent static executable as well. */
-
-static void
-sunos_relocate_main_executable (void)
-{
- asection *interp_sect;
- CORE_ADDR pc = read_pc ();
-
- /* Decide if the objfile needs to be relocated. As indicated above,
- we will only be here when execution is stopped at the beginning
- of the program. Relocation is necessary if the address at which
- we are presently stopped differs from the start address stored in
- the executable AND there's no interpreter section. The condition
- regarding the interpreter section is very important because if
- there *is* an interpreter section, execution will begin there
- instead. When there is an interpreter section, the start address
- is (presumably) used by the interpreter at some point to start
- execution of the program.
-
- If there is an interpreter, it is normal for it to be set to an
- arbitrary address at the outset. The job of finding it is
- handled in enable_break().
-
- So, to summarize, relocations are necessary when there is no
- interpreter section and the start address obtained from the
- executable is different from the address at which GDB is
- currently stopped.
-
- [ The astute reader will note that we also test to make sure that
- the executable in question has the DYNAMIC flag set. It is my
- opinion that this test is unnecessary (undesirable even). It
- was added to avoid inadvertent relocation of an executable
- whose e_type member in the ELF header is not ET_DYN. There may
- be a time in the future when it is desirable to do relocations
- on other types of files as well in which case this condition
- should either be removed or modified to accomodate the new file
- type. (E.g, an ET_EXEC executable which has been built to be
- position-independent could safely be relocated by the OS if
- desired. It is true that this violates the ABI, but the ABI
- has been known to be bent from time to time.) - Kevin, Nov 2000. ]
- */
-
- interp_sect = bfd_get_section_by_name (exec_bfd, ".interp");
- if (interp_sect == NULL
- && (bfd_get_file_flags (exec_bfd) & DYNAMIC) != 0
- && bfd_get_start_address (exec_bfd) != pc)
- {
- struct cleanup *old_chain;
- struct section_offsets *new_offsets;
- int i, changed;
- CORE_ADDR displacement;
-
- /* It is necessary to relocate the objfile. The amount to
- relocate by is simply the address at which we are stopped
- minus the starting address from the executable.
-
- We relocate all of the sections by the same amount. This
- behavior is mandated by recent editions of the System V ABI.
- According to the System V Application Binary Interface,
- Edition 4.1, page 5-5:
-
- ... Though the system chooses virtual addresses for
- individual processes, it maintains the segments' relative
- positions. Because position-independent code uses relative
- addressesing between segments, the difference between
- virtual addresses in memory must match the difference
- between virtual addresses in the file. The difference
- between the virtual address of any segment in memory and
- the corresponding virtual address in the file is thus a
- single constant value for any one executable or shared
- object in a given process. This difference is the base
- address. One use of the base address is to relocate the
- memory image of the program during dynamic linking.
-
- The same language also appears in Edition 4.0 of the System V
- ABI and is left unspecified in some of the earlier editions. */
-
- displacement = pc - bfd_get_start_address (exec_bfd);
- changed = 0;
-
- new_offsets = xcalloc (symfile_objfile->num_sections,
- sizeof (struct section_offsets));
- old_chain = make_cleanup (xfree, new_offsets);
-
- for (i = 0; i < symfile_objfile->num_sections; i++)
- {
- if (displacement != ANOFFSET (symfile_objfile->section_offsets, i))
- changed = 1;
- new_offsets->offsets[i] = displacement;
- }
-
- if (changed)
- objfile_relocate (symfile_objfile, new_offsets);
-
- do_cleanups (old_chain);
- }
-}
-
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