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From: hjl@lucon.org (H.J. Lu)
To: ian@zembu.com (Ian Lance Taylor)
Cc: devans@cygnus.com, bfd@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: arm questions
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 13:10:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m10XsSi-000ErMC@ocean.lucon.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19990415180136.2600.qmail@daffy.airs.com>

> Some folks in England put together ARM GNU/Linux, but they took a very
> long time to get the copyright stuff done.  For some reason that I do
> not know, that implementation used REL rather than RELA relocs.
> 
> In the meantime, Cygnus implemented ARM ELF, using RELA relocs.
> 
> It's obviously desirable to have a single ARM ELF ABI, and the best
> choice is probably the one currently being used for GNU/Linux.
> Therefore, when we straightened out the copyright situation, we dumped
> the Cygnus RELA implementation in favour of the GNU/Linux REL
> implementation.
> 

While we are on RELA/REL, could someone kindly enough tell me the
implementation and performance impacts between RELA and REL, on
both static and dynamic objects?

Thanks a lot.

-- 
H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.org)

  parent reply	other threads:[~1999-04-15 13:10 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   ` H.J. Lu [this message]
1999-04-15 13:45     ` arm questions Ian Lance Taylor
1999-04-15 13:36   ` Philip Blundell
1999-04-16  0:43     ` Lee Smith
1999-04-16  3:21       ` Toshi Morita
     [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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