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Re: Prebinding for DragonFly/FreeBSD-4


From: Simon 'corecode' Schubert <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 23:08:14 +0200

Lately Matthew Dillon told:

>    Could you explain what portion of the ELF data is being hashed in
>    more detail?  DT_REL[A] would be the symbol table (effectively),
>    right?  Is that inclusive of both data and instruction (function
>    labels)?

It's the relocation table (array of Elf32_Rel[a]). It doesn't hash the
string table or symbol table.
Hashing the rel[a] entries should be enough, because that's effectively
what we are working on. Actually as I'm writing this, we might want to
hash the symbol table too.

cheers
  simon


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