Why modify the executable?
Why modify the executable?
Posted Jul 15, 2009 17:17 UTC (Wed) by epa (subscriber, #39769)Parent article: Is pre-linking worth it?
Modifying the executable by adding another ELF section sounds messy. Why not a separate file foo.prelink storing the information? Then ld.so can use this file if it exists and if ld.so is configured to take notice of prelink info. The original binary is unchanged.
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