Re: Dynamic linker and .interp section

[Michael Shmulevich <michaels@jungo.com>]

Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:

> On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Michael Shmulevich wrote:
>
>
> > So my question sounds like: can I specify a non-existing linker and tell 
> > ld to ignore missing file?
>
>  You can.  Ld never checks for its existence.
As with binutils-2.10 it is not true. Not only ld looks for it, it opens 
the file, checks the architecture and even checks for SO_NAME (adds it 
do NEEDS list). I have tried it several times.

Sincerely yours,
Michael Shmulevich
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