CMUCL commit: src/lisp (elf.c)

[Raymond Toy]

    Date: Monday, August 2, 2010 @ 02:03:49
  Author: rtoy
    Path: /project/cmucl/cvsroot/src/lisp

Modified: elf.c

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 elf.c |   13 +++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)


Index: src/lisp/elf.c
diff -u src/lisp/elf.c:1.26 src/lisp/elf.c:1.27
--- src/lisp/elf.c:1.26	Sun Aug  1 23:58:59 2010
+++ src/lisp/elf.c	Mon Aug  2 02:03:49 2010
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 
  Above changes put into main CVS branch. 05-Jul-2007.
 
- $Id: elf.c,v 1.26 2010-08-02 03:58:59 agoncharov Exp $
+ $Id: elf.c,v 1.27 2010-08-02 06:03:49 rtoy Exp $
 */
 
 #include <stdio.h>
@@ -479,7 +479,16 @@
 	    for (j = 0; j < 3; j++) {
 		if (!strncmp(nambuf, section_names[j], 6)) {
 		    os_vm_address_t addr;
-
+		    /*
+		     * On Solaris, the section header sets the addr
+		     * field to 0 because the linker script says the
+		     * sections are NOTE sections.  Hence, we need to
+		     * look up the section addresses ourselves.
+                     *
+                     * For other systems, we don't care what the
+                     * address is.  We infer the address from the
+                     * segment name.
+		     */
 		    addr = section_addr[j];
 		    /* Found a core section. Map it! */
 		    if ((os_vm_address_t) os_map(exec_fd, sh.sh_offset,