From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4700 invoked by alias); 22 May 2006 15:17:17 -0000 Received: (qmail 4686 invoked by uid 22791); 22 May 2006 15:17:16 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from bender.bawue.de (HELO bender.bawue.de) (193.7.176.20) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Mon, 22 May 2006 15:17:12 +0000 Received: from lagash (unknown [194.74.144.146]) by bender.bawue.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id DED2E44FD9; Mon, 22 May 2006 17:17:07 +0200 (MEST) Received: from ths by lagash with local (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1FiC92-0003oK-29; Mon, 22 May 2006 16:16:32 +0100 Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 20:28:00 -0000 From: Thiemo Seufer To: David Daney , binutils@sourceware.org Subject: Re: MIPS textrel fix Message-ID: <20060522151631.GD30254@networkno.de> References: <20060518213149.GA14720@nevyn.them.org> <446CEF9F.2070403@avtrex.com> <20060519001101.GA1073@networkno.de> <20060522150542.GA21267@nevyn.them.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060522150542.GA21267@nevyn.them.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060403 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact binutils-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: binutils-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-05/txt/msg00381.txt.bz2 Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 01:11:01AM +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > > The needed relocation types were originally defined for embedded PIC > > MIPS and are not available in the ABI spec, their use for eh_frame > > was an accident. When the removal of embedded PIC support broke the > > toolchain, the fix chosen was to become ABI compatible again. > > Right. I'd forgotten this. Really, the ABI ought to have the > necessary relocations; but I'm not going to poke my nose in further > right now. I'm not opposed to extending the ABI, but it shouldn't happen as an accident. Back when the embedded PIC was removed, nobody seemed to care much about keeping the PC-relative relocations as general extension. Thiemo