Re: Illegal use of reserved word in system.h

[Richard B. Johnson]

On Thu, 19 May 2005, Steven Rostedt wrote:

> On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 16:06 +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> > "Richard B. Johnson" <linux-os@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >
> > > Now, where is that 'auxiliary vevtor'??? I got a pointer to
> > > something to be executed before calling exit, I have an
> > > argument count, then a bunch of pointers (argv), terminating
> > > with a NULL, then another bunch of pointers (envp) terminating
> > > with a NULL.  Is there something after that??? If so, what's
> > > the contents of this thing?
> >
> > See create_elf_tables.  The aux table comes after the environment.
>
> As I stated earlier, the page size passed in there is ELF_EXEC_PAGESIZE
> which may not be the same as PAGE_SIZE.
>
> -- Steve

It's also hard to see what is happening in 'C'. When I execute
this:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

int main(int cnt, char *argv[], char *env[], char *aux[])
{
    printf("Aux 0 = %s\n", aux[0]);
//    printf("Aux 1 = %s\n", aux[1]);
}

I get:

Aux 0 = GLIBC_2.0

The next pointer is a NULL pointer, so 'C' has dorked something.
When I play in assembler, (crt.o startup) I get a pointer that
points to:

	bffffb6c	- pointer of the stack
	00000020	- dereferenced

This shows that ld-linux.so, that got called first, didn't
preserve the vector.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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