Re: ELF dynamic loader name

From: John Baldwin <jhb_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 08:46:14 -0500
On Sunday 13 January 2008 02:48:56 pm Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Tim Kientzle <kientzle_at_freebsd.org> writes:
> >   * The kernel already has logic to translate refs to this
> > library to "ld-elf<platform>.so.1" for the single
> > special case of i386 on amd64 (even though "i386" seems to
> > be spelled "32" in this case).
> 
> Not only that, but also for 32-bit Linux binaries on i386, and 32-bit
> and 64-bit Linux binaries on amd64.

Not for Linux, but it is for any 32-bit FreeBSD apps on a 64-bit kernel.
So currently i386 on amd64 and i386 on ia64, but it could also be used
to run 32-bit sparc binaries (if we had any) on sparc64.

-- 
John Baldwin
Received on Mon Jan 14 2008 - 13:32:34 UTC

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