[Axiom-developer] Re: Fedora

[Camm Maguire]

Thanks Tim!

Actually the linking is fine.  Its runtime.  sbrk(0) returns a random
address with each startup.  Thankfully setarch is working.  And I feel
it will be supported for a long time, as its required for Fedora's
emacs build too (just checked).

I'm just hoping that people don't start regarding us as 'old', both in
terms of people and code, and therefore assume there is nothing of
value that should be preserved by maintaining backward compatibility. 

Take care,

root <address@hidden> writes:

> I've already made a huge stink about it on the fedora list and the
> basic response is "deal with it". It seems that the most recent
> issue is that they also break JIT compilers (Java). 
> 
> In thinking about this I suspect that there is a hack around it.
> GCL already gets information from the linker when it loads code.
> There are two possible attacks. Either:
> 
> (a) don't use the system dynamic linker and link the .so files yourself
> (b) look at the load map and find where the .so files were loaded
> 
> Tim
> 
> 
> 

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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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