Input for an "optimized" slide

[Jim Huang]

2011/8/22 Bernhard Rosenkranzer <bernhard.rosenkranzer at linaro.org>:
> On 21 August 2011 15:00, Michael Hope <michael.hope at linaro.org> wrote:
>> Sorry, silly question, but does Android use the glibc dynamic linker?
>
> No, they really like reinventing the wheel. Bionic comes with its own
> dynamic linker.

hi Bernhard and Michael,

The dynamic linker is file "/system/bin/linker".

>> If not, does its linker support other hash styles?
>
> It looks like it supports both the sysv and gnu styles. It uses libelf
> to do most of its ELF parsing, and libelf seems to do the right thing.

I don't think so.  Since Android uses the libelfcopy[2], derived from
some really old parts in binutils, providing the
facilities about DWARF/ELF, we would need extra modifications like the
attached patch.[*]

Also, bionic linker changes are required.  Another attachment contains
the 0xlab internal modifications.

Sincerely,
-jserv

[*] The related patches are expected to be submitted to AOSP Gerrit recently.
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