global offset table
 

Does anyone know if it's reasonable to expect that the Global Offset Table entries remain the same between different releases of a distribution? What I mean is, will the GOT be the same for, say, Mandrake 7 and Mandrake 9. I know it differs between various distros, but is it the same for different versions of the same distro. I'm kind of leaning towards the negative on this. What would be even more helpful is if some knows where I could find the GOT for Mandrake 9.1. I believe it's in the kernel sources somewhere. I'm not much of a kernel hacker...
Thanks

No, it is not resonable to expect the global offset table remain the same. Adding or even updating a library could cause it to be changed. That is the whole purpose of the dynamic linker.