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From: Toshi Morita <tm2@best.com>
To: bfd@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: arm questions
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 03:21:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <199904161021.DAA19183@shell14.ba.best.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19990416083918.0099b8a0@mail1.bateman.arm.com>

> >In fact as far as Linux is concerned it probably wouldn't be an especially 
> >big deal to introduce RELA in parallel with REL if we wanted to.  I think 
> >there were rumblings that the ARM SDT compiler was primarily using RELA,
> 
> No. ARM only uses REL. We see no advantage to RELA. However, our ELF
> linker (not yet released) handles RELA or any mix of REL and RELA
> (as the ELF standard seems to intend).
> 
> AFAIK, Green Hills uses RELA only in its ARM ELF tool chain.
> 
> >so we 
> >might end up doing it in order to be able to interwork with them.  Our
> dynamic 
> >linker can be taught to handle binaries with an arbitrary mix of reloc
> types, 
> >I think, and I imagine binutils can be made to handle this too if it doesn't 
> >already.

The BFD when configured for sh-elf supports both REL and RELA relocation types
although sh-elf-gcc itself only uses REL. 

Toshi

  reply	other threads:[~1999-04-16  3:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-04-15 10:38 Doug Evans
1999-04-15 11:01 ` Ian Lance Taylor
1999-04-15 11:31   ` Scott Bambrough
1999-04-15 11:47     ` Ian Lance Taylor
1999-04-15 13:29       ` H.J. Lu
1999-04-15 13:59         ` Ian Lance Taylor
1999-04-15 14:15           ` Mixing REL and RELA H.J. Lu
1999-04-15 14:21             ` Ian Lance Taylor
1999-04-15 14:28               ` H.J. Lu
1999-04-15 13:10   ` arm questions H.J. Lu
1999-04-15 13:45     ` Ian Lance Taylor
1999-04-15 13:36   ` Philip Blundell
1999-04-16  0:43     ` Lee Smith
1999-04-16  3:21       ` Toshi Morita [this message]
     [not found]     ` <3.0.5.32.19990416083918.0099b8a0.cygnus.local.bfd@mail1.bateman.arm.com>
1999-04-18 17:10       ` Doug Evans

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