From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>
To: Nick Clifton <nickc@cambridge.redhat.com>
Cc: binutils@sources.redhat.com, Ian Lance Taylor <ian@zembu.com>
Subject: Re: elf_link_hash_entry vs generic_link_hash_entry
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 09:22:00 -0000
Message-id: <20010823092140.A15101@lucon.org>
References: <si66bh2zdl.fsf@daffy.airs.com> <m3y9ocbkyw.fsf_-_@north-pole.nickc.cambridge.redhat.com>
X-SW-Source: 2001-08/msg00537.html

On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 08:41:11AM +0100, Nick Clifton wrote:
> 
>    3. Go back to the old situation where elf ports that do not provide
>       their own relocation backends use the generic linker hash table
>       entry structure, but add code to the other elf routines to
>       detect this and fail before they try to access fields in the
>       hash structure that are not there.
> 

I'd like this one. How about we turn elf_hash_table into something
specific to each backend? For those targets which don't use
_bfd_elf_link_hash_table_create, it will return NULL or a fatal
bfd error.


H.J.