[pif]

> And if you've ever dug into the guts of glibc's loader it's 40 years of unreadable cruft.

You meant: it's 40 years of debugged and hardened run-everywhere never-fails code, I suppose.

[duped]

No, I meant 40 years of unreadable cruft. It's not hard to write a correct loader. It's very hard to understand glibc's implementation.