cvs commit: src/libexec/rtld-elf debug.c rtld.1 rtld.c rtld.h
Alexander Kabaev
kabaev at mail.ru
Wed Jun 18 21:23:51 PDT 2003
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 20:55:38 -0700 (PDT)
"Matthew N. Dodd" <mdodd at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> mdodd 2003/06/18 20:55:38 PDT
>
> FreeBSD src repository
>
> Modified files:
> libexec/rtld-elf debug.c rtld.1 rtld.c rtld.h
> Log:
> Provide a mechanism for dumping relocation information.
>
> Setting the LD_DUMP_REL_PRE or LD_DUMP_REL_POST environment
> variables cause rtld-elf to output a table of all relocations.
>
> This is useful for debugging.
Just out of curiosity what does that buy you compared to objdump/readelf
tools? Frankly I do not think this kind of logging output belongs to
rtld and would like to see this patch backed out. It is also possible
there are some advantages I am missing, in that case an explanation will
be very much appreciated.
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