On 12/20/2012 10:35 AM, Roland McGrath wrote:
> The Kconfig text for COMPAT_VDSO suggests that glibc versions prior to
> 2.3.3 may have relied on the fixed address. I can't find anything in the
> libc revision history to explain that (AFAIK the code always used
> AT_SYSINFO* since it started using the vDSO at all), but it might have been
> something less obvious. Someone like Jakub might recall the details.
Jakub, any insights?
We're trying to figure out if anything ever depended on the COMPAT_VDSO
(at a fixed address), in particular for i386 (as opposed to x86-64).
-hpa
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