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From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@gcc.gnu.org>
To: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
Cc: binutils@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [patch] SymbianOS Arm executables
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 19:54:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1108051026.4376.47.camel@pc960.cambridge.arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200502101545.29671.paul@codesourcery.com>

On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 15:45, Paul Brook wrote:
> On Thursday 10 February 2005 10:55, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> > I'm uncomfortable about the way globals->symbian_p is getting scattered
> > throughout the entire linking process.  I think we really need to try
> > and distill that variable into the effects it has on linking (this would
> > then make porting the linker to platforms with similar properties much
> > less painful).
> >
> > In this case you've already identified the abstract property: the
> > executable is relocated at link time.  Most of your used of ->symbian_p
> > should therefore be ->exec_reloc_p.  There should then be exactly one
> > place where symbian_p is tested, and that is then used to set the
> > exec_reloc_p property.
> 
> Modified patch attached. No functional changes.
> 
That looks much better.

> Retested on i686-linux, arm-none-elf and arm-none-symbianelf.
> Ok?

The ARM parts are OK, but I can't approve the other bits.

R.

  reply	other threads:[~2005-02-10 16:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-02-09 23:38 Paul Brook
2005-02-10 15:58 ` Richard Earnshaw
2005-02-10 17:29   ` Paul Brook
2005-02-10 19:54     ` Richard Earnshaw [this message]
2005-02-11 15:15 Nick Clifton

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