to understand the concept of relocation, i wrote a simple chk.c program as follows :

  1 #include<stdio.h>
  2 main(){
  3         int x,y,sum;
  4         x = 3;
  5         y = 4;
  6         sum = x + y;
  7         printf("sum = %d\n",sum);
  8 }

its equivalent assembly code, using "objdump -d chk.o" is :

00000000 <main>:
   0:   55                      push   %ebp
   1:   89 e5                   mov    %esp,%ebp
   3:   83 e4 f0                and    $0xfffffff0,%esp
   6:   83 ec 20                sub    $0x20,%esp
   9:   c7 44 24 1c 03 00 00    movl   $0x3,0x1c(%esp)
  10:   00 
  11:   c7 44 24 18 04 00 00    movl   $0x4,0x18(%esp)
  18:   00 
  19:   8b 44 24 18             mov    0x18(%esp),%eax
  1d:   8b 54 24 1c             mov    0x1c(%esp),%edx
  21:   8d 04 02                lea    (%edx,%eax,1),%eax
  24:   89 44 24 14             mov    %eax,0x14(%esp)
  28:   b8 00 00 00 00          mov    $0x0,%eax
  2d:   8b 54 24 14             mov    0x14(%esp),%edx
  31:   89 54 24 04             mov    %edx,0x4(%esp)
  35:   89 04 24                mov    %eax,(%esp)
  38:   e8 fc ff ff ff          call   39 <main+0x39>
  3d:   c9                      leave  
  3e:   c3                      ret

and .rel.text section seen using readelf is as follows :

Relocation section '.rel.text' at offset 0x360 contains 2 entries:
 Offset     Info    Type            Sym.Value  Sym. Name
00000029  00000501 R_386_32          00000000   .rodata
00000039  00000902 R_386_PC32        00000000   printf

i have following questions based on this :

1) from 2nd entry in .rel.text section, i am able to understand that value at offset 0x39 in .text section (which is 0xfcffffff here) has to be replaced with address of a symbol associated with index 9 of symbol table (& that comes out to be printf). But i am not able to clearly understand the meaning

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