1 /* SPARC-specific values for a.out files
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20 /* Some systems, e.g., AIX, may have defined this in header files already
22 #undef TARGET_PAGE_SIZE
23 #define TARGET_PAGE_SIZE 0x2000 /* 8K. aka NBPG in <sys/param.h> */
24 /* Note that some SPARCs have 4K pages, some 8K, some others. */
26 #define SEG_SIZE_SPARC TARGET_PAGE_SIZE
27 #define SEG_SIZE_SUN3 0x20000 /* Resolution of r/w protection hw */
29 #define TEXT_START_ADDR TARGET_PAGE_SIZE /* Location 0 is not accessible */
30 #define N_HEADER_IN_TEXT(x) 1
32 /* Non-default definitions of the accessor macros... */
34 /* Segment size varies on Sun-3 versus Sun-4. */
36 #define N_SEGSIZE(x) (N_MACHTYPE(x) == M_SPARC? SEG_SIZE_SPARC: \
37 N_MACHTYPE(x) == M_68020? SEG_SIZE_SUN3: \
38 /* Guess? */ TARGET_PAGE_SIZE)
40 /* Virtual Address of text segment from the a.out file. For OMAGIC,
41 (almost always "unlinked .o's" these days), should be zero.
42 Sun added a kludge so that shared libraries linked ZMAGIC get
43 an address of zero if a_entry (!!!) is lower than the otherwise
44 expected text address. These kludges have gotta go!
45 For linked files, should reflect reality if we know it. */
47 #define N_SHARED_LIB(x) ((x)->a_entry < TEXT_START_ADDR \
48 && (x)->a_text >= EXEC_BYTES_SIZE)
50 /* This differs from the version in aout64.h (which we override by defining
51 it here) only for NMAGIC (we return TEXT_START_ADDR+EXEC_BYTES_SIZE;
54 #define N_TXTADDR(x) \
55 (N_MAGIC(x)==OMAGIC? 0 \
56 : (N_MAGIC(x) == ZMAGIC && (x)->a_entry < TEXT_START_ADDR)? 0 \
57 : TEXT_START_ADDR+EXEC_BYTES_SIZE)
59 /* When a file is linked against a shared library on SunOS 4, the
60 dynamic bit in the exec header is set, and the first symbol in the
61 symbol table is __DYNAMIC. Its value is the address of the
62 following structure. */
64 struct external_sun4_dynamic
66 /* The version number of the structure. SunOS 4.1.x creates files
67 with version number 3, which is what this structure is based on.
68 According to gdb, version 2 is similar. I believe that version 2
69 used a different type of procedure linkage table, and there may
70 have been other differences. */
71 bfd_byte ld_version
[4];
72 /* The virtual address of a 28 byte structure used in debugging.
73 The contents are filled in at run time by ld.so. */
75 /* The virtual address of another structure with information about
76 how to relocate the executable at run time. */
80 /* The size of the debugging structure pointed to by the debugger
81 field of __DYNAMIC. */
82 #define EXTERNAL_SUN4_DYNAMIC_DEBUGGER_SIZE (24)
84 /* The structure pointed to by the linker field of __DYNAMIC. As far
85 as I can tell, most of the addresses in this structure are offsets
86 within the file, but some are actually virtual addresses. */
88 struct internal_sun4_dynamic_link
90 /* Linked list of loaded objects. This is filled in at runtime by
91 ld.so and probably by dlopen. */
92 unsigned long ld_loaded
;
94 /* The address of the list of names of shared objects which must be
95 included at runtime. Each entry in the list is 16 bytes: the 4
96 byte address of the string naming the object (e.g., for -lc this
97 is "c"); 4 bytes of flags--the high bit is whether to search for
98 the object using the library path; the 2 byte major version
99 number; the 2 byte minor version number; the 4 byte address of
100 the next entry in the list (zero if this is the last entry). The
101 version numbers seem to only be non-zero when doing library
103 unsigned long ld_need
;
105 /* The address of the path to search for the shared objects which
106 must be included. This points to a string in PATH format which
107 is generated from the -L arguments to the linker. According to
108 the man page, ld.so implicitly adds ${LD_LIBRARY_PATH} to the
109 beginning of this string and /lib:/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib to the
110 end. The string is terminated by a null byte. This field is
111 zero if there is no additional path. */
112 unsigned long ld_rules
;
114 /* The address of the global offset table. This appears to be a
115 virtual address, not a file offset. The first entry in the
116 global offset table seems to be the virtual address of the
117 sun4_dynamic structure (the same value as the __DYNAMIC symbol).
118 The global offset table is used for PIC code to hold the
119 addresses of variables. A dynamically linked file which does not
120 itself contain PIC code has a four byte global offset table. */
121 unsigned long ld_got
;
123 /* The address of the procedure linkage table. This appears to be a
124 virtual address, not a file offset.
126 On a SPARC, the table is composed of 12 byte entries, each of
127 which consists of three instructions. The first entry is
131 These instructions are changed by ld.so into a jump directly into
132 ld.so itself. Each subsequent entry is
134 call <address of first entry in procedure linkage table>
135 <reloc_number | 0x01000000>
136 The reloc_number is the number of the reloc to use to resolve
137 this entry. The reloc will be a JMP_SLOT reloc against some
138 symbol that is not defined in this object file but should be
139 defined in a shared object (if it is not, ld.so will report a
140 runtime error and exit). The constant 0x010000000 turns the
141 reloc number into a sethi of %g0, which does nothing since %g0 is
144 When one of these entries is executed, it winds up calling into
145 ld.so. ld.so looks at the reloc number, available via the return
146 address, to determine which entry this is. It then looks at the
147 reloc and patches up the entry in the table into a sethi and jmp
148 to the real address followed by a nop. This means that the reloc
149 lookup only has to happen once, and it also means that the
150 relocation only needs to be done if the function is actually
151 called. The relocation is expensive because ld.so must look up
154 The size of the procedure linkage table is given by the ld_plt_sz
156 unsigned long ld_plt
;
158 /* The address of the relocs. These are in the same format as
159 ordinary relocs. Symbol index numbers refer to the symbols
160 pointed to by ld_stab. I think the only way to determine the
161 number of relocs is to assume that all the bytes from ld_rel to
162 ld_hash contain reloc entries. */
163 unsigned long ld_rel
;
165 /* The address of a hash table of symbols. The hash table has
166 roughly the same number of entries as there are dynamic symbols;
167 I think the only way to get the exact size is to assume that
168 every byte from ld_hash to ld_stab is devoted to the hash table.
170 Each entry in the hash table is eight bytes. The first four
171 bytes are a symbol index into the dynamic symbols. The second
172 four bytes are the index of the next hash table entry in the
173 bucket. The ld_buckets field gives the number of buckets, say B.
174 The first B entries in the hash table each start a bucket which
175 is chained through the second four bytes of each entry. A value
176 of zero ends the chain.
178 The hash function is simply
180 while (*string != '\0')
181 h = (h << 1) + *string++;
184 To look up a symbol, compute the hash value of the name. Take
185 the modulos of hash value and the number of buckets. Start at
186 that entry in the hash table. See if the symbol (from the first
187 four bytes of the hash table entry) has the name you are looking
188 for. If not, use the chain field (the second four bytes of the
189 hash table entry) to move on to the next entry in this bucket.
190 If the chain field is zero you have reached the end of the
191 bucket, and the symbol is not in the hash table. */
192 unsigned long ld_hash
;
194 /* The address of the symbol table. This is a list of
195 external_nlist structures. The string indices are relative to
196 the ld_symbols field. I think the only way to determine the
197 number of symbols is to assume that all the bytes between ld_stab
198 and ld_symbols are external_nlist structures. */
199 unsigned long ld_stab
;
201 /* I don't know what this is for. It seems to always be zero. */
202 unsigned long ld_stab_hash
;
204 /* The number of buckets in the hash table. */
205 unsigned long ld_buckets
;
207 /* The address of the symbol string table. The first string in this
208 string table need not be the empty string. */
209 unsigned long ld_symbols
;
211 /* The size in bytes of the symbol string table. */
212 unsigned long ld_symb_size
;
214 /* The size in bytes of the text segment. */
215 unsigned long ld_text
;
217 /* The size in bytes of the procedure linkage table. */
218 unsigned long ld_plt_sz
;
221 /* The external form of the structure. */
223 struct external_sun4_dynamic_link
225 bfd_byte ld_loaded
[4];
227 bfd_byte ld_rules
[4];
233 bfd_byte ld_stab_hash
[4];
234 bfd_byte ld_buckets
[4];
235 bfd_byte ld_symbols
[4];
236 bfd_byte ld_symb_size
[4];
238 bfd_byte ld_plt_sz
[4];