From: Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de>
To: binutils@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: elf_link_hash_entry vs generic_link_hash_entry
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 01:06:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010822100620.Q30301@rembrandt.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3y9ocbkyw.fsf_-_@north-pole.nickc.cambridge.redhat.com>
Nick Clifton wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> Ian Taylor has pointed out that my recent patch to elfxx-target.h
> has actually broken several elf based ports. (Specifically: pj,
> m88k, m68hc11, m68hc12, i960, d30v, arc, gen). The problem is that
> these ports uses the generic linker code to perform section
> relocation rather than having their own specific code. This breaks
> if the elf hash table structure (elf_link_hash_entry) is used
> instead of the generic_link_hash_entry structure, since the two
> structures are not compatable. The reason that my patch changed
> elfxx-target.h so that all elf backends would use elf_link_hash_entry
> is that several other parts of the elf linker rely upon using other
> fields which are only found in that structure.
>
> As I see there are three ways that we can fix this:
>
> 1. Require that all ELF backends define their own section
> relocation function and final link function. Make it a #error
> if they do not. Fix all the ports that currently do not do
> this. This is Ian's recommended solution.
What about introducing something like generic_elf_final_link_relocate()
and generic_elf_final_link() instead of code duplication?
Thiemo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-22 1:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <si66bh2zdl.fsf@daffy.airs.com>
2001-08-22 0:44 ` Nick Clifton
2001-08-22 1:06 ` Thiemo Seufer [this message]
2001-08-22 7:02 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2001-08-23 9:22 ` H . J . Lu
2001-08-23 11:36 ` H . J . Lu
2001-08-23 12:10 ` H . J . Lu
2001-08-24 9:35 ` Nick Clifton
2001-08-24 9:54 ` H . J . Lu
2001-08-24 10:02 ` H . J . Lu
2001-08-24 9:18 ` Nick Clifton
2001-08-24 9:22 ` H . J . Lu
2001-08-28 15:53 ` Richard Henderson
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