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authorJohannes Stoelp <johannes.stoelp@gmail.com>2023-02-11 20:57:40 +0100
committerJohannes Stoelp <johannes.stoelp@gmail.com>2023-02-11 20:57:40 +0100
commitd77576bb523bac542b06621794f26a18efde4fb1 (patch)
tree6be2702a6d58bcbe12ca468ad0c1b69d07b283f6
parentb70697488d0cd858569a5d7d977a89b8637d1020 (diff)
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04: fix load through GOT explanationHEADmain
-rw-r--r--04_dynld_nostd/README.md11
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/04_dynld_nostd/README.md b/04_dynld_nostd/README.md
index fc5c338..9c284ec 100644
--- a/04_dynld_nostd/README.md
+++ b/04_dynld_nostd/README.md
@@ -638,10 +638,11 @@ Shared libraries on the other hand that also reference the same symbol will go
though a `GOT` entry that is patched by the dynamic linker to point to the
location in the `.bss` section of the main program.
Below this can be seen by the `mov` instruction at address `1024` that the
-relative address `3ff8` is dereferenced to get the value of the `gCalled`
-variable. In the `readelf` dump above it can be seen that there is a relocation
-of type `R_X86_64_GLOB_DAT` for symbol `gCalled` affecting the relative address
-`3ff8` in the shared library.
+relative address `3ff8` is dereferenced, which is the GOT entry for `gCalled`,
+to get the address of `gCalled`. The next instruction at `102b` then loads the
+value of `gCalled` iteself. In the `readelf` dump above it can be seen that
+there is a relocation of type `R_X86_64_GLOB_DAT` for symbol `gCalled`
+affecting the relative address `3ff8` in the shared library.
```bash
> objdump -M intel -d -j .text -j .got libgreet.so
@@ -653,7 +654,7 @@ Disassembly of section .text:
1020: 55 push rbp
1021: 48 89 e5 mov rbp,rsp
1024: 48 8b 05 cd 2f 00 00 mov rax,QWORD PTR [rip+0x2fcd] # 3ff8 <gCalled-0x28>
-
+ 102b: 8b 00 mov eax,DWORD PTR [rax] # load gCalled
...
Disassembly of section .got: