Re: DT_TEXTREL/.dynamic issue with the binutils 2.15 linker on ARM and Linux

[Richard Earnshaw <Richard.Earnshaw@arm.com>]

On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 21:13, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 10:59:08AM -0600, David Poole wrote:
> > On May 29, 2004, at 12:06 AM, Alan Modra wrote:
> > 
> > >On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 10:56:09AM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > >>I don't know why DT_TEXTREL isn't there for this case.  It should be.
> > >
> > >Perhaps because elf32-arm.h doesn't have something like
> > >readonly_dynrelocs as implemented in other backends.
> > 
> > Looking at elf32-i386.c and elf32-s390.c, I copied the 
> > readonly_dynrelocs() and the call in 
> > elf_(i386|s390)_size_dynamic_sections.
> > 
> 
> The patch from the message I'm quoting looks right to me:
>   http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2004-06/msg00010.html
> 
> However, to apply it, two things need to happen:
>   - An ARM maintainer needs to review it.

I'm happy with this, especially if you are.

>   - Someone needs to decide whether it requires a copyright assignment
>     (my instinct is no, but I don't make these decisions).
> 

I agree, but let's give Nick a couple of days in case he wants to raise
an objection.

R.