Initial version of the Wine preloader, used to reserve memory
areas at startup. Based on the work of Mike McCormack.

diff --git a/configure b/configure
index e512212..8e67365 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -14180,31 +14180,44 @@
 
         case $host_cpu in
           *i[3456789]86*)
-            echo "$as_me:$LINENO: checking whether we can relocate the executable to 0x00110000" >&5
-echo $ECHO_N "checking whether we can relocate the executable to 0x00110000... $ECHO_C" >&6
+            echo "$as_me:$LINENO: checking whether we can relocate the executable to 0x77f00000" >&5
+echo $ECHO_N "checking whether we can relocate the executable to 0x77f00000... $ECHO_C" >&6
 if test "${ac_cv_ld_reloc_exec+set}" = set; then
   echo $ECHO_N "(cached) $ECHO_C" >&6
 else
-  saved_CFLAGS="$CFLAGS"
-               CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -Wl,--section-start,.interp=0x00110400"
-               if test "$cross_compiling" = yes; then
-  ac_cv_ld_reloc_exec="no"
-else
-  cat >conftest.$ac_ext <<_ACEOF
+  ac_wine_try_cflags_saved=$CFLAGS
+CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -Wl,--section-start,.interp=0x77f00400"
+cat >conftest.$ac_ext <<_ACEOF
 /* confdefs.h.  */
 _ACEOF
 cat confdefs.h >>conftest.$ac_ext
 cat >>conftest.$ac_ext <<_ACEOF
 /* end confdefs.h.  */
-#include <unistd.h>
-                           int main() { return (sbrk(32*1024*1024) == (void *)-1); }
+
+int
+main ()
+{
+
+  ;
+  return 0;
+}
 _ACEOF
-rm -f conftest$ac_exeext
+rm -f conftest.$ac_objext conftest$ac_exeext
 if { (eval echo "$as_me:$LINENO: \"$ac_link\"") >&5
-  (eval $ac_link) 2>&5
+  (eval $ac_link) 2>conftest.er1
+  ac_status=$?
+  grep -v '^ *+' conftest.er1 >conftest.err
+  rm -f conftest.er1
+  cat conftest.err >&5
+  echo "$as_me:$LINENO: \$? = $ac_status" >&5
+  (exit $ac_status); } &&
+	 { ac_try='test -z "$ac_c_werror_flag"			 || test ! -s conftest.err'
+  { (eval echo "$as_me:$LINENO: \"$ac_try\"") >&5
+  (eval $ac_try) 2>&5
   ac_status=$?
   echo "$as_me:$LINENO: \$? = $ac_status" >&5
-  (exit $ac_status); } && { ac_try='./conftest$ac_exeext'
+  (exit $ac_status); }; } &&
+	 { ac_try='test -s conftest$ac_exeext'
   { (eval echo "$as_me:$LINENO: \"$ac_try\"") >&5
   (eval $ac_try) 2>&5
   ac_status=$?
@@ -14212,22 +14225,20 @@
   (exit $ac_status); }; }; then
   ac_cv_ld_reloc_exec="yes"
 else
-  echo "$as_me: program exited with status $ac_status" >&5
-echo "$as_me: failed program was:" >&5
+  echo "$as_me: failed program was:" >&5
 sed 's/^/| /' conftest.$ac_ext >&5
 
-( exit $ac_status )
 ac_cv_ld_reloc_exec="no"
 fi
-rm -f core *.core gmon.out bb.out conftest$ac_exeext conftest.$ac_objext conftest.$ac_ext
-fi
-               CFLAGS="$saved_CFLAGS"
+rm -f conftest.err conftest.$ac_objext \
+      conftest$ac_exeext conftest.$ac_ext
+CFLAGS=$ac_wine_try_cflags_saved
 fi
 echo "$as_me:$LINENO: result: $ac_cv_ld_reloc_exec" >&5
 echo "${ECHO_T}$ac_cv_ld_reloc_exec" >&6
             if test "$ac_cv_ld_reloc_exec" = "yes"
             then
-              LDEXECFLAGS="$LDEXECFLAGS -Wl,--section-start,.interp=0x00110400"
+              LDEXECFLAGS="$LDEXECFLAGS -Wl,--section-start,.interp=0x77f00400"
             fi
             ;;
         esac
@@ -14528,7 +14539,7 @@
 
 case $host_os in
   linux*)
-    WINE_BINARIES="wine-glibc wine-kthread wine-pthread"
+    WINE_BINARIES="wine-glibc wine-kthread wine-pthread wine-preloader"
 
     MAIN_BINARY="wine-glibc"
 
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 08b0254..3ce7c74 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -905,16 +905,12 @@
 
         case $host_cpu in
           *i[[3456789]]86*)
-            AC_CACHE_CHECK([whether we can relocate the executable to 0x00110000], ac_cv_ld_reloc_exec,
-              [saved_CFLAGS="$CFLAGS"
-               CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -Wl,--section-start,.interp=0x00110400"
-               AC_TRY_RUN([#include <unistd.h>
-                           int main() { return (sbrk(32*1024*1024) == (void *)-1); }],
-                          ac_cv_ld_reloc_exec="yes", ac_cv_ld_reloc_exec="no", ac_cv_ld_reloc_exec="no")
-               CFLAGS="$saved_CFLAGS"])
+            AC_CACHE_CHECK([whether we can relocate the executable to 0x77f00000], ac_cv_ld_reloc_exec,
+              [WINE_TRY_CFLAGS([-Wl,--section-start,.interp=0x77f00400],
+                               ac_cv_ld_reloc_exec="yes", ac_cv_ld_reloc_exec="no")])
             if test "$ac_cv_ld_reloc_exec" = "yes"
             then
-              LDEXECFLAGS="$LDEXECFLAGS -Wl,--section-start,.interp=0x00110400"
+              LDEXECFLAGS="$LDEXECFLAGS -Wl,--section-start,.interp=0x77f00400"
             fi
             ;;
         esac
@@ -980,7 +976,7 @@
 
 case $host_os in
   linux*)
-    AC_SUBST(WINE_BINARIES,"wine-glibc wine-kthread wine-pthread")
+    AC_SUBST(WINE_BINARIES,"wine-glibc wine-kthread wine-pthread wine-preloader")
     AC_SUBST(MAIN_BINARY,"wine-glibc")
     ;;
   *)
diff --git a/dlls/kernel/process.c b/dlls/kernel/process.c
index d34e00e..7d0048a 100644
--- a/dlls/kernel/process.c
+++ b/dlls/kernel/process.c
@@ -1462,10 +1462,10 @@
         if (argv && envp)
         {
             /* first, try for a WINELOADER environment variable */
-            argv[0] = getenv("WINELOADER");
-            if (argv[0]) execve( argv[0], argv, envp );
+            const char *loader = getenv("WINELOADER");
+            if (loader) wine_exec_wine_binary( loader, argv, envp, TRUE );
             /* now use the standard search strategy */
-            wine_exec_wine_binary( NULL, argv, envp );
+            wine_exec_wine_binary( NULL, argv, envp, TRUE );
         }
         err = errno;
         write( execfd[1], &err, sizeof(err) );
diff --git a/dlls/ntdll/server.c b/dlls/ntdll/server.c
index cb38458..dd8296b 100644
--- a/dlls/ntdll/server.c
+++ b/dlls/ntdll/server.c
@@ -512,7 +512,7 @@
                               "    specified in the WINESERVER environment variable", p );
             }
             /* now use the standard search strategy */
-            wine_exec_wine_binary( argv[0], argv, NULL );
+            wine_exec_wine_binary( argv[0], argv, NULL, FALSE );
             fatal_error( "could not exec wineserver\n" );
         }
         waitpid( pid, &status, 0 );
@@ -703,7 +703,7 @@
         argv[2] = "--prefix";
         argv[3] = tmp_dir;
         argv[4] = NULL;
-        wine_exec_wine_binary( argv[0], (char **)argv, NULL );
+        wine_exec_wine_binary( argv[0], (char **)argv, NULL, FALSE );
         rmdir( tmp_dir );
         fatal_perror( "could not exec wineprefixcreate" );
     }
diff --git a/include/wine/library.h b/include/wine/library.h
index 8eef5398..93802b8 100644
--- a/include/wine/library.h
+++ b/include/wine/library.h
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
 extern const char *wine_get_server_dir(void);
 extern const char *wine_get_user_name(void);
 extern void wine_init_argv0_path( const char *argv0 );
-extern void wine_exec_wine_binary( const char *name, char **argv, char **envp );
+extern void wine_exec_wine_binary( const char *name, char **argv, char **envp, int use_preloader );
 
 /* dll loading */
 
diff --git a/libs/wine/config.c b/libs/wine/config.c
index c6ab19e..5382079 100644
--- a/libs/wine/config.c
+++ b/libs/wine/config.c
@@ -271,20 +271,50 @@
     return user_name;
 }
 
+/* exec a binary using the preloader if requested; helper for wine_exec_wine_binary */
+static void preloader_exec( char **argv, char **envp, int use_preloader )
+{
+#ifdef linux
+    if (use_preloader)
+    {
+        static const char preloader[] = "wine-preloader";
+        char *p, *full_name;
+
+        if (!(p = strrchr( argv[0], '/' ))) p = argv[0];
+        else p++;
+
+        full_name = xmalloc( p - argv[0] + sizeof(preloader) );
+        memcpy( full_name, argv[0], p - argv[0] );
+        memcpy( full_name + (p - argv[0]), preloader, sizeof(preloader) );
+        if (envp) execve( full_name, argv, envp );
+        else execv( full_name, argv );
+        free( full_name );
+        return;
+    }
+#else
+    if (envp) execve( argv[0], argv, envp );
+    else execv( argv[0], argv );
+#endif
+}
+
 /* exec a wine internal binary (either the wine loader or the wine server) */
-/* if name is null, default to the name of the current binary */
-void wine_exec_wine_binary( const char *name, char **argv, char **envp )
+void wine_exec_wine_binary( const char *name, char **argv, char **envp, int use_preloader )
 {
     const char *path, *pos, *ptr;
 
-    if (!envp) envp = environ;
-    if (!name) name = argv0_name;
+    if (name && strchr( name, '/' ))
+    {
+        argv[0] = (char *)name;
+        preloader_exec( argv, envp, use_preloader );
+        return;
+    }
+    else if (!name) name = argv0_name;
 
     /* first, try bin directory */
     argv[0] = xmalloc( sizeof(BINDIR "/") + strlen(name) );
     strcpy( argv[0], BINDIR "/" );
     strcat( argv[0], name );
-    execve( argv[0], argv, envp );
+    preloader_exec( argv, envp, use_preloader );
     free( argv[0] );
 
     /* now try the path of argv0 of the current binary */
@@ -293,7 +323,7 @@
         argv[0] = xmalloc( strlen(argv0_path) + strlen(name) + 1 );
         strcpy( argv[0], argv0_path );
         strcat( argv[0], name );
-        execve( argv[0], argv, envp );
+        preloader_exec( argv, envp, use_preloader );
         free( argv[0] );
     }
 
@@ -310,7 +340,7 @@
             memcpy( argv[0], pos, ptr - pos );
             strcpy( argv[0] + (ptr - pos), "/" );
             strcat( argv[0] + (ptr - pos), name );
-            execve( argv[0], argv, envp );
+            preloader_exec( argv, envp, use_preloader );
             pos = ptr;
         }
         free( argv[0] );
diff --git a/loader/.cvsignore b/loader/.cvsignore
index 8e637dd..cc4ff21 100644
--- a/loader/.cvsignore
+++ b/loader/.cvsignore
@@ -2,4 +2,5 @@
 wine
 wine-glibc
 wine-kthread
+wine-preloader
 wine-pthread
diff --git a/loader/Makefile.in b/loader/Makefile.in
index 356da17..5a5fb30 100644
--- a/loader/Makefile.in
+++ b/loader/Makefile.in
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 	glibc.c \
 	kthread.c \
 	main.c \
+	preloader.c \
 	pthread.c
 
 KTHREAD_OBJS = kthread.o main.o
@@ -24,7 +25,10 @@
 LDEXECFLAGS = @LDEXECFLAGS@
 
 wine-glibc: glibc.o Makefile.in
-	$(CC) -o $@ $(LDEXECFLAGS) glibc.o $(LIBWINE) $(LIBPORT) $(LIBPTHREAD) $(EXTRALIBS) $(LDFLAGS)
+	$(CC) -o $@ glibc.o $(LIBWINE) $(LIBPORT) $(LIBPTHREAD) $(EXTRALIBS) $(LDFLAGS)
+
+wine-preloader: preloader.o Makefile.in
+	$(CC) -o $@ -static -nostartfiles -Wl,-Ttext=0x78000000 preloader.o $(LIBPORT) $(LDFLAGS)
 
 wine-kthread: $(KTHREAD_OBJS) Makefile.in
 	$(CC) -o $@ $(LDEXECFLAGS) $(KTHREAD_OBJS) $(LIBWINE) $(LIBPORT) $(EXTRALIBS) $(LDFLAGS)
diff --git a/loader/glibc.c b/loader/glibc.c
index 9d98d74..0cdf408 100644
--- a/loader/glibc.c
+++ b/loader/glibc.c
@@ -93,13 +93,12 @@
         strcpy( new_loader, "WINELOADER=" );
         strcat( new_loader, new_name );
         putenv( new_loader );
-        argv[0] = new_name;
-        execv( argv[0], argv );
+        wine_exec_wine_binary( new_name, argv, NULL, TRUE );
     }
     else
     {
         wine_init_argv0_path( argv[0] );
-        wine_exec_wine_binary( threads, argv, NULL );
+        wine_exec_wine_binary( threads, argv, NULL, TRUE );
     }
     fprintf( stderr, "wine: could not exec %s\n", argv[0] );
     exit(1);
diff --git a/loader/main.c b/loader/main.c
index f50100e..cd45733 100644
--- a/loader/main.c
+++ b/loader/main.c
@@ -21,6 +21,10 @@
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include "wine/library.h"
+#include "main.h"
+
+/* the preloader will set this variable */
+const struct wine_preload_info *wine_main_preload_info = NULL;
 
 /**********************************************************************
  *           main
@@ -28,6 +32,14 @@
 int main( int argc, char *argv[] )
 {
     char error[1024];
+    int i;
+
+    if (wine_main_preload_info)
+    {
+        for (i = 0; wine_main_preload_info[i].size; i++)
+            wine_mmap_add_reserved_area( wine_main_preload_info[i].addr,
+                                         wine_main_preload_info[i].size );
+    }
 
     wine_init( argc, argv, error, sizeof(error) );
     fprintf( stderr, "wine: failed to initialize: %s\n", error );
diff --git a/loader/main.h b/loader/main.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d78ec5b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/loader/main.h
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+/*
+ * Definitions for Wine main program
+ *
+ * Copyright 2004 Mike McCormack for Codeweavers
+ * Copyright 2004 Alexandre Julliard
+ *
+ * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
+ * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
+ * version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
+ * Lesser General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
+ * License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
+ * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
+ */
+
+#ifndef __WINE_LOADER_MAIN_H
+#define __WINE_LOADER_MAIN_H
+
+struct wine_preload_info
+{
+    void  *addr;
+    size_t size;
+};
+
+#endif /* __WINE_LOADER_MAIN_H */
diff --git a/loader/preloader.c b/loader/preloader.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2ce5676
--- /dev/null
+++ b/loader/preloader.c
@@ -0,0 +1,645 @@
+/*
+ * Preloader for ld.so
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 1995,96,97,98,99,2000,2001,2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ * Copyright (C) 2004 Mike McCormack for Codeweavers
+ * Copyright (C) 2004 Alexandre Julliard
+ *
+ * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
+ * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
+ * version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
+ * Lesser General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
+ * License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
+ * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
+ */
+
+/*
+ * Design notes
+ *
+ * The goal of this program is to be a workaround for exec-shield, as used
+ *  by the Linux kernel distributed with Fedora Core and other distros.
+ *
+ * To do this, we implement our own shared object loader that reserves memory
+ * that is important to Wine, and then loads the main binary and its ELF
+ * interpreter.
+ *
+ * We will try to set up the stack and memory area so that the program that
+ * loads after us (eg. the wine binary) never knows we were here, except that
+ * areas of memory it needs are already magically reserved.
+ *
+ * The following memory areas are important to Wine:
+ *  0x00000000 - 0x00110000  the DOS area
+ *  0x80000000 - 0x81000000  the shared heap
+ *  ???        - ???         the PE binary load address (usually starting at 0x00400000)
+ *
+ * If this program is used as the shared object loader, the only difference
+ * that the loaded programs should see is that this loader will be mapped
+ * into memory when it starts.
+ */
+
+/*
+ * References (things I consulted to understand how ELF loading works):
+ *
+ * glibc 2.3.2   elf/dl-load.c
+ *  http://www.gnu.org/directory/glibc.html
+ *
+ * Linux 2.6.4   fs/binfmt_elf.c
+ *  ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.4.tar.bz2
+ *
+ * Userland exec, by <grugq@hcunix.net>
+ *  http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/archive/bugtraq/2004/01/msg00002.html
+ *
+ * The ELF specification:
+ *  http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/booksets/LSB-Embedded/LSB-Embedded/book387.html
+ */
+
+#include "config.h"
+#include "wine/port.h"
+
+#include <stdarg.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <string.h>
+#include <sys/types.h>
+#include <sys/stat.h>
+#include <fcntl.h>
+#ifdef HAVE_SYS_MMAN_H
+# include <sys/mman.h>
+#endif
+#ifdef HAVE_UNISTD_H
+# include <unistd.h>
+#endif
+#ifdef HAVE_ELF_H
+# include <elf.h>
+#endif
+#ifdef HAVE_LINK_H
+# include <link.h>
+#endif
+#ifdef HAVE_SYS_LINK_H
+# include <sys/link.h>
+#endif
+
+#include "main.h"
+
+/* ELF definitions */
+#define ELF_PREFERRED_ADDRESS(loader, maplength, mapstartpref) (mapstartpref)
+#define ELF_FIXED_ADDRESS(loader, mapstart) ((void) 0)
+
+#define MAP_BASE_ADDR(l)     0
+
+#ifndef MAP_COPY
+#define MAP_COPY MAP_PRIVATE
+#endif
+#ifndef MAP_NORESERVE
+#define MAP_NORESERVE 0
+#endif
+
+static struct wine_preload_info preload_info[] =
+{
+    { (void *)0x00000000, 0x00110000 },  /* DOS area */
+    { (void *)0x80000000, 0x01000000 },  /* shared heap */
+    { (void *)0x00110000, 0x0fef0000 },  /* PE exe range (FIXME) */
+    { 0, 0 }                             /* end of list */
+};
+
+/* debugging */
+#undef DUMP_SEGMENTS
+#undef DUMP_AUX_INFO
+#undef DUMP_SYMS
+
+/* older systems may not define these */
+#ifndef PT_TLS
+#define PT_TLS 7
+#endif
+
+static unsigned int page_size, page_mask;
+
+struct wld_link_map {
+    ElfW(Addr) l_addr;
+    ElfW(Dyn) *l_ld;
+    const ElfW(Phdr) *l_phdr;
+    ElfW(Addr) l_entry;
+    ElfW(Half) l_ldnum;
+    ElfW(Half) l_phnum;
+    ElfW(Addr) l_map_start, l_map_end;
+    ElfW(Addr) l_interp;
+};
+
+
+/*
+ * The _start function is the entry and exit point of this program
+ *
+ *  It calls wld_start, passing a pointer to the args it receives
+ *  then jumps to the address wld_start returns after removing the
+ *  first argv[] value, and decrementing argc
+ */
+void _start();
+extern char _end[];
+__ASM_GLOBAL_FUNC(_start,
+                  "\tcall wld_start\n"
+                  "\tpush %eax\n"
+                  "\txor %eax,%eax\n"
+                  "\txor %ecx,%ecx\n"
+                  "\txor %edx,%edx\n"
+                  "\tret\n")
+
+/*
+ * wld_printf - just the basics
+ *
+ *  %x prints a hex number
+ *  %s prints a string
+ */
+static void wld_vsprintf(char *str, char *fmt, va_list args )
+{
+    char *p = fmt;
+
+    while( *p )
+    {
+        if( *p == '%' )
+        {
+            p++;
+            if( *p == 'x' )
+            {
+                int ch, i, x = va_arg( args, int );
+                for(i=7; i>=0; i--)
+                {
+                    ch = (x>>(i*4))&0xf;
+                    ch += '0';
+                    if(ch>'9')
+                        ch+=('A'-10-'0');
+                    *str++ = ch;
+                }
+            }
+            else if( *p == 's' )
+            {
+                char *s = va_arg( args, char * );
+                while(*s)
+                    *str++ = *s++;
+            }
+            else if( *p == 0 )
+                break;
+            p++;
+        }
+        *str++ = *p++;
+    }
+    *str = 0;
+}
+
+static void wld_printf(char *fmt, ... )
+{
+    va_list args;
+    char buffer[256];
+
+    va_start( args, fmt );
+    wld_vsprintf(buffer, fmt, args );
+    va_end( args );
+    write(2, buffer, strlen(buffer));
+}
+
+static void fatal_error(char *fmt, ... )
+{
+    va_list args;
+    char buffer[256];
+
+    va_start( args, fmt );
+    wld_vsprintf(buffer, fmt, args );
+    va_end( args );
+    write(2, buffer, strlen(buffer));
+    _exit(1);
+}
+
+#ifdef DUMP_AUX_INFO
+/*
+ *  Dump interesting bits of the ELF auxv_t structure that is passed
+ *   as the 4th parameter to the _start function
+ */
+static void dump_auxiliary( ElfW(auxv_t) *av )
+{
+  for (  ; av->a_type != AT_NULL; av++)
+    switch (av->a_type)
+      {
+      case AT_PAGESZ:
+        wld_printf("AT_PAGESZ = %x\n",av->a_un.a_val);
+        break;
+      case AT_PHDR:
+        wld_printf("AT_PHDR = %x\n",av->a_un.a_ptr);
+        break;
+      case AT_PHNUM:
+        wld_printf("AT_PHNUM = %x\n",av->a_un.a_val);
+        break;
+      case AT_ENTRY:
+        wld_printf("AT_ENTRY = %x\n",av->a_un.a_val);
+        break;
+      case AT_BASE:
+        wld_printf("AT_BASE = %x\n",av->a_un.a_val);
+        break;
+      }
+}
+#endif
+
+/*
+ * set_auxiliary
+ *
+ * Set a field of the auxiliary structure
+ */
+static void set_auxiliary( ElfW(auxv_t) *av, int type, long int val )
+{
+  for ( ; av->a_type != AT_NULL; av++)
+    if( av->a_type == type )
+      av->a_un.a_val = val;
+}
+
+/*
+ * get_auxiliary
+ *
+ * Get a field of the auxiliary structure
+ */
+static int get_auxiliary( ElfW(auxv_t) *av, int type, int *val )
+{
+  for ( ; av->a_type != AT_NULL; av++)
+    if( av->a_type == type )
+    {
+      *val = av->a_un.a_val;
+      return 1;
+    }
+  return 0;
+}
+
+/*
+ * map_so_lib
+ *
+ * modelled after _dl_map_object_from_fd() from glibc-2.3.1/elf/dl-load.c
+ *
+ * This function maps the segments from an ELF object, and optionally
+ *  stores information about the mapping into the auxv_t structure.
+ */
+static void map_so_lib( const char *name, struct wld_link_map *l)
+{
+    int fd;
+    unsigned char buf[0x800];
+    ElfW(Ehdr) *header = (ElfW(Ehdr)*)buf;
+    ElfW(Phdr) *phdr, *ph;
+    /* Scan the program header table, collecting its load commands.  */
+    struct loadcmd
+      {
+        ElfW(Addr) mapstart, mapend, dataend, allocend;
+        off_t mapoff;
+        int prot;
+      } loadcmds[16], *c;
+    size_t nloadcmds = 0, maplength;
+
+    fd = open( name, O_RDONLY );
+    if (fd == -1) fatal_error("%s: could not open\n", name );
+
+    if (read( fd, buf, sizeof(buf) ) != sizeof(buf))
+        fatal_error("%s: failed to read ELF header\n", name);
+
+    phdr = (void*) (((unsigned char*)buf) + header->e_phoff);
+
+    if( ( header->e_ident[0] != 0x7f ) ||
+        ( header->e_ident[1] != 'E' ) ||
+        ( header->e_ident[2] != 'L' ) ||
+        ( header->e_ident[3] != 'F' ) )
+        fatal_error( "%s: not an ELF binary... don't know how to load it\n", name );
+
+    if( header->e_machine != EM_386 )
+        fatal_error("%s: not an i386 ELF binary... don't know how to load it\n", name );
+
+    if (header->e_phnum > sizeof(loadcmds)/sizeof(loadcmds[0]))
+        fatal_error( "%s: oops... not enough space for load commands\n", name );
+
+    maplength = header->e_phnum * sizeof (ElfW(Phdr));
+    if (header->e_phoff + maplength > sizeof(buf))
+        fatal_error( "%s: oops... not enough space for ELF headers\n", name );
+
+    l->l_ld = 0;
+    l->l_addr = 0;
+    l->l_phdr = 0;
+    l->l_phnum = header->e_phnum;
+    l->l_entry = header->e_entry;
+    l->l_interp = 0;
+
+    for (ph = phdr; ph < &phdr[l->l_phnum]; ++ph)
+    {
+
+#ifdef DUMP_SEGMENTS
+      wld_printf( "ph = %x\n", ph );
+      wld_printf( " p_type   = %x\n", ph->p_type );
+      wld_printf( " p_flags  = %x\n", ph->p_flags );
+      wld_printf( " p_offset = %x\n", ph->p_offset );
+      wld_printf( " p_vaddr  = %x\n", ph->p_vaddr );
+      wld_printf( " p_paddr  = %x\n", ph->p_paddr );
+      wld_printf( " p_filesz = %x\n", ph->p_filesz );
+      wld_printf( " p_memsz  = %x\n", ph->p_memsz );
+      wld_printf( " p_align  = %x\n", ph->p_align );
+#endif
+
+      switch (ph->p_type)
+        {
+          /* These entries tell us where to find things once the file's
+             segments are mapped in.  We record the addresses it says
+             verbatim, and later correct for the run-time load address.  */
+        case PT_DYNAMIC:
+          l->l_ld = (void *) ph->p_vaddr;
+          l->l_ldnum = ph->p_memsz / sizeof (Elf32_Dyn);
+          break;
+
+        case PT_PHDR:
+          l->l_phdr = (void *) ph->p_vaddr;
+          break;
+
+        case PT_LOAD:
+          {
+            if ((ph->p_align & page_mask) != 0)
+              fatal_error( "%s: ELF load command alignment not page-aligned\n", name );
+
+            if (((ph->p_vaddr - ph->p_offset) & (ph->p_align - 1)) != 0)
+              fatal_error( "%s: ELF load command address/offset not properly aligned\n", name );
+
+            c = &loadcmds[nloadcmds++];
+            c->mapstart = ph->p_vaddr & ~(ph->p_align - 1);
+            c->mapend = ((ph->p_vaddr + ph->p_filesz + page_mask) & ~page_mask);
+            c->dataend = ph->p_vaddr + ph->p_filesz;
+            c->allocend = ph->p_vaddr + ph->p_memsz;
+            c->mapoff = ph->p_offset & ~(ph->p_align - 1);
+
+            c->prot = 0;
+            if (ph->p_flags & PF_R)
+              c->prot |= PROT_READ;
+            if (ph->p_flags & PF_W)
+              c->prot |= PROT_WRITE;
+            if (ph->p_flags & PF_X)
+              c->prot |= PROT_EXEC;
+          }
+          break;
+
+        case PT_INTERP:
+          l->l_interp = ph->p_vaddr;
+          break;
+
+        case PT_TLS:
+          /*
+           * We don't need to set anything up because we're
+           * emulating the kernel, not ld-linux.so.2
+           * The ELF loader will set up the TLS data itself.
+           */
+        case PT_SHLIB:
+        case PT_NOTE:
+        default:
+          break;
+        }
+    }
+
+    /* Now process the load commands and map segments into memory.  */
+    c = loadcmds;
+
+    /* Length of the sections to be loaded.  */
+    maplength = loadcmds[nloadcmds - 1].allocend - c->mapstart;
+
+    if( header->e_type == ET_DYN )
+    {
+        ElfW(Addr) mappref;
+        mappref = (ELF_PREFERRED_ADDRESS (loader, maplength, c->mapstart)
+                   - MAP_BASE_ADDR (l));
+
+        /* Remember which part of the address space this object uses.  */
+        l->l_map_start = (ElfW(Addr)) mmap ((void *) mappref, maplength,
+                                              c->prot, MAP_COPY | MAP_FILE,
+                                              fd, c->mapoff);
+        /* wld_printf("set  : offset = %x\n", c->mapoff); */
+        /* wld_printf("l->l_map_start = %x\n", l->l_map_start); */
+
+        l->l_map_end = l->l_map_start + maplength;
+        l->l_addr = l->l_map_start - c->mapstart;
+
+        mprotect ((caddr_t) (l->l_addr + c->mapend),
+                    loadcmds[nloadcmds - 1].allocend - c->mapend,
+                    PROT_NONE);
+        goto postmap;
+    }
+    else
+    {
+        char *preloader_start = (char *)_start - ((unsigned int)_start & page_mask);
+        char *preloader_end = (char *)((unsigned int)(_end + page_mask) & ~page_mask);
+
+        /* sanity check */
+        if ((char *)c->mapstart + maplength > preloader_start &&
+            (char *)c->mapstart <= preloader_end)
+            fatal_error( "%s: binary overlaps preloader (%x-%x)\n",
+                         name, c->mapstart, (char *)c->mapstart + maplength );
+
+        ELF_FIXED_ADDRESS (loader, c->mapstart);
+    }
+
+    /* Remember which part of the address space this object uses.  */
+    l->l_map_start = c->mapstart + l->l_addr;
+    l->l_map_end = l->l_map_start + maplength;
+
+    while (c < &loadcmds[nloadcmds])
+      {
+        if (c->mapend > c->mapstart)
+            /* Map the segment contents from the file.  */
+            mmap ((void *) (l->l_addr + c->mapstart),
+                        c->mapend - c->mapstart, c->prot,
+                        MAP_FIXED | MAP_COPY | MAP_FILE, fd, c->mapoff);
+
+      postmap:
+        if (l->l_phdr == 0
+            && (ElfW(Off)) c->mapoff <= header->e_phoff
+            && ((size_t) (c->mapend - c->mapstart + c->mapoff)
+                >= header->e_phoff + header->e_phnum * sizeof (ElfW(Phdr))))
+          /* Found the program header in this segment.  */
+          l->l_phdr = (void *)(unsigned int) (c->mapstart + header->e_phoff - c->mapoff);
+
+        if (c->allocend > c->dataend)
+          {
+            /* Extra zero pages should appear at the end of this segment,
+               after the data mapped from the file.   */
+            ElfW(Addr) zero, zeroend, zeropage;
+
+            zero = l->l_addr + c->dataend;
+            zeroend = l->l_addr + c->allocend;
+            zeropage = (zero + page_mask) & ~page_mask;
+
+            /*
+             * This is different from the dl-load load...
+             *  ld-linux.so.2 relies on the whole page being zero'ed
+             */
+            zeroend = (zeroend + page_mask) & ~page_mask;
+
+            if (zeroend < zeropage)
+            {
+              /* All the extra data is in the last page of the segment.
+                 We can just zero it.  */
+              zeropage = zeroend;
+            }
+
+            if (zeropage > zero)
+              {
+                /* Zero the final part of the last page of the segment.  */
+                if ((c->prot & PROT_WRITE) == 0)
+                  {
+                    /* Dag nab it.  */
+                    mprotect ((caddr_t) (zero & ~page_mask), page_size, c->prot|PROT_WRITE);
+                  }
+                memset ((void *) zero, '\0', zeropage - zero);
+                if ((c->prot & PROT_WRITE) == 0)
+                  mprotect ((caddr_t) (zero & ~page_mask), page_size, c->prot);
+              }
+
+            if (zeroend > zeropage)
+              {
+                /* Map the remaining zero pages in from the zero fill FD.  */
+                caddr_t mapat;
+                mapat = mmap ((caddr_t) zeropage, zeroend - zeropage,
+                                c->prot, MAP_ANON|MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED,
+                                -1, 0);
+              }
+          }
+
+        ++c;
+      }
+
+    if (l->l_phdr == NULL) fatal_error("no program header\n");
+
+    l->l_phdr = (void *)((ElfW(Addr))l->l_phdr + l->l_addr);
+    l->l_entry += l->l_addr;
+
+    close( fd );
+}
+
+
+/*
+ * Find a symbol in the symbol table of the executable loaded
+ */
+static void *find_symbol( const ElfW(Phdr) *phdr, int num, char *var )
+{
+    const ElfW(Dyn) *dyn = NULL;
+    const ElfW(Phdr) *ph;
+    const ElfW(Sym) *symtab = NULL;
+    const char *strings = NULL;
+    Elf_Symndx i, symtabend = 0;
+
+    /* check the values */
+#ifdef DUMP_SYMS
+    wld_printf("%x %x\n", phdr, num );
+#endif
+    if( ( phdr == NULL ) || ( num == 0 ) )
+    {
+        wld_printf("could not find PT_DYNAMIC header entry\n");
+        return NULL;
+    }
+
+    /* parse the (already loaded) ELF executable's header */
+    for (ph = phdr; ph < &phdr[num]; ++ph)
+    {
+        if( PT_DYNAMIC == ph->p_type )
+        {
+            dyn = (void *) ph->p_vaddr;
+            num = ph->p_memsz / sizeof (Elf32_Dyn);
+            break;
+        }
+    }
+    if( !dyn ) return NULL;
+
+    while( dyn->d_tag )
+    {
+        if( dyn->d_tag == DT_STRTAB )
+            strings = (const char*) dyn->d_un.d_ptr;
+        if( dyn->d_tag == DT_SYMTAB )
+            symtab = (const ElfW(Sym) *)dyn->d_un.d_ptr;
+        if( dyn->d_tag == DT_HASH )
+            symtabend = *((const Elf_Symndx *)dyn->d_un.d_ptr + 1);
+#ifdef DUMP_SYMS
+        wld_printf("%x %x\n", dyn->d_tag, dyn->d_un.d_ptr );
+#endif
+        dyn++;
+    }
+
+    if( (!symtab) || (!strings) ) return NULL;
+
+    for (i = 0; i < symtabend; i++)
+    {
+        if( ( ELF32_ST_BIND(symtab[i].st_info) == STT_OBJECT ) &&
+            ( 0 == strcmp( strings+symtab[i].st_name, var ) ) )
+        {
+#ifdef DUMP_SYMS
+            wld_printf("Found %s -> %x\n", strings+symtab[i].st_name, symtab[i].st_value );
+#endif
+            return (void*)symtab[i].st_value;
+        }
+    }
+    return NULL;
+}
+
+/*
+ *  wld_start
+ *
+ *  Repeat the actions the kernel would do when loading a dynamically linked .so
+ *  Load the binary and then its ELF interpreter.
+ *  Note, we assume that the binary is a dynamically linked ELF shared object.
+ */
+void* wld_start( int argc, ... )
+{
+    int i;
+    char **argv, **p;
+    char *interp;
+    ElfW(auxv_t)* av;
+    struct wld_link_map main_binary_map, ld_so_map;
+    struct wine_preload_info **wine_main_preload_info;
+
+    argv = (char **)&argc + 1;
+
+    /* skip over the parameters */
+    p = argv + argc + 1;
+
+    /* skip over the environment */
+    while (*p) p++;
+
+    av = (ElfW(auxv_t)*) (p+1);
+    if (!get_auxiliary( av, AT_PAGESZ, &page_size )) page_size = 4096;
+    page_mask = page_size - 1;
+
+#ifdef DUMP_AUX_INFO
+    for( i = 0; i<argc; i++ ) wld_printf("argv[%x] = %s\n", i, argv[i]);
+    dump_auxiliary( av );
+#endif
+
+    /* reserve memory that Wine needs */
+    for (i = 0; preload_info[i].size; i++)
+        mmap( preload_info[i].addr, preload_info[i].size,
+              PROT_NONE, MAP_FIXED | MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANON | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0 );
+
+    /* load the main binary */
+    map_so_lib( argv[0], &main_binary_map );
+
+    /* load the ELF interpreter */
+    interp = (char *)main_binary_map.l_addr + main_binary_map.l_interp;
+    map_so_lib( interp, &ld_so_map );
+
+    /* store pointer to the preload info into the appropriate main binary variable */
+    wine_main_preload_info = find_symbol( main_binary_map.l_phdr, main_binary_map.l_phnum,
+                                          "wine_main_preload_info" );
+    if (wine_main_preload_info) *wine_main_preload_info = preload_info;
+    else wld_printf( "wine_main_preload_info not found\n" );
+
+    set_auxiliary( av, AT_PHDR, (unsigned long)main_binary_map.l_phdr );
+    set_auxiliary( av, AT_PHNUM, main_binary_map.l_phnum );
+    set_auxiliary( av, AT_BASE, ld_so_map.l_addr );
+    set_auxiliary( av, AT_ENTRY, main_binary_map.l_entry );
+
+#ifdef DUMP_AUX_INFO
+    wld_printf("New auxiliary info:\n");
+    dump_auxiliary( av );
+    wld_printf("jumping to %x\n", ld_so_map.l_entry);
+#endif
+
+    return (void *)ld_so_map.l_entry;
+}