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Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 03:08:03 GMT
From: Neel Natu<neelnatu@yahoo.com>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: loader wastes space worth symtab size in load_elf_obj.c
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>Number:         110995
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       [loader] [patch] loader wastes space worth symtab size in load_elf_obj.c
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Mar 29 03:20:02 GMT 2007
>Closed-Date:    
>Last-Modified:  Wed Jun 01 20:34:50 UTC 2011
>Originator:     Neel Natu
>Release:        6.0
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
When loader loads relocatable object in load_elf_obj.c it wastes space worth
symbol table section size.

The diff below fixes it:

==== //depot/prod/freebsd/Rtricky_freebsd6.0/usr/src/sys/boot/common/load_elf_obj.c#1 - /u/neelnatu/p4/tricky/freebsd/usr/src/sys/boot/common/load_elf_obj.c ====
241,242d240
<                       shdr[i].sh_addr = (Elf_Addr)lastaddr;
<                       lastaddr += shdr[i].sh_size;


>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->kmacy 
Responsible-Changed-By: kmacy 
Responsible-Changed-When: Fri Nov 16 06:41:30 UTC 2007 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  

I know that the fix is valid. Just need feedback from peter or jhb. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=110995 
Responsible-Changed-From-To: kmacy->freebsd-bugs 
Responsible-Changed-By: gavin 
Responsible-Changed-When: Wed Jun 1 20:32:28 UTC 2011 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
kmacy has asked for all of his PRs to be reassigned, put back into the 
pool. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=110995 
>Unformatted:
