Frank Kotler ?????:
What's the story with http://asm.sourceforge.net ? Just a mirror, or
is there some difference?
It's the original site. linuxassembly.org is a redirect, actually.
Still hoping to release new asmutils..
Great! There are a couple bugs in 0.17...
Makefile - insists on buggy 0.98 to build. Deleting the obvious
offending lines fixes it. (we apologize for 0.98.37 - elf output was
badly broken... but 0.98??? Jesus, it won't even assemble its own
"test" directory!)
Oh, I guess now the latest 0.98.xx should work fine.. I will remove the
check.
truss.asm - "pause" is an instruction nowadays. Speak to Intel, not
Nasm's fault. I fixed it by changing to "$pause" (two places, IIRC),
but any change would fix it...
Thanks, fixed.
Several of the utilities segfault on 2.6.10+ (this was first brought
to my attention on 2.6.11, but the patch appears to have been applied
to 2.6.10 - still there in 2.6.12) This applies to those utilities
with the (only) code section set to "R X", but those with "RWX" still
work okay. I don't know if the proper fix is to make all code sections
writeable (last lines in Brian's "elf.inc") or to make sure every
program made this way has a "UDATASEG"...
Call it a "kernel bug" if you like (I do), but I don't think it's
going to go away.
Okay, I'll see how this can be solved. Still haven't tried any 2.6
kernel :-)
What are the security implications of making the code section
writeable? Is this a "safe" thing to do?
From a glance, I do not see any point in doing this. However, perhaps
study of linux-kernel archives may clarify why this was done.
And still lacking time for this.. :(
So many bits,so little time... :) Huge thanks to you and others
involved for what you've done. It's a *tremendous* help!
Well, we're just having fun... when time permits :-)
--
Regards,
Konstantin.
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