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-rw-r--r--ldso/ldso/dl-startup.c16
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/ldso/ldso/dl-startup.c b/ldso/ldso/dl-startup.c
index a51b583a4..449266077 100644
--- a/ldso/ldso/dl-startup.c
+++ b/ldso/ldso/dl-startup.c
@@ -32,8 +32,8 @@
/*
* The main trick with this program is that initially, we ourselves are not
- * dynamicly linked. This means that we cannot access any global variables or
- * call any functions. No globals initially, since the Global Offset Table
+ * dynamically linked. This means that we cannot access any global variables
+ * or call any functions. No globals initially, since the Global Offset Table
* (GOT) is initialized by the linker assuming a virtual address of 0, and no
* function calls initially since the Procedure Linkage Table (PLT) is not yet
* initialized.
@@ -55,12 +55,12 @@
*
* Fortunately, the linker itself leaves a few clues lying around, and when the
* kernel starts the image, there are a few further clues. First of all, there
- * is Auxiliary Vector Table information sitting on which is provided to us by
- * the kernel, and which includes information about the load address that the
- * program interpreter was loaded at, the number of sections, the address the
- * application was loaded at and so forth. Here this information is stored in
- * the array auxvt. For details see linux/fs/binfmt_elf.c where it calls
- * NEW_AUX_ENT() a bunch of time....
+ * is Auxiliary Vector Table information sitting on the stack which is provided
+ * to us by the kernel, and which includes information about the address
+ * that the program interpreter was loaded at, the number of sections, the
+ * address the application was loaded at, and so forth. Here this information
+ * is stored in the array auxvt. For details see linux/fs/binfmt_elf.c where
+ * it calls NEW_AUX_ENT() a bunch of times....
*
* Next, we need to find the GOT. On most arches there is a register pointing
* to the GOT, but just in case (and for new ports) I've added some (slow) C