From: Jakub Jelinek <jj@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz>
To: John Reiser <jreiser@bitwagon.com>
Cc: binutils@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: x32 psABI draft version 0.2
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 17:59:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110217175855.GJ13037@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D5D4943.2010300@bitwagon.com>
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 08:13:55AM -0800, John Reiser wrote:
> On 02/17/2011 04:14 AM, H.J. Lu wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 12:35 AM, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com> wrote:
>
> >> Furthermore, it seems questionable to continue to require rela
> >> relocations when for all normal ones (leaving aside the 8- and 16-
> >> bit ones) the addend can fit in the relocated field.
> >
> > Rela is much nicer to work with.
>
> How is RELA much nicer to work with than REL?
E.g. for prelinking, REL doesn't work at all for most relocations
(with the exception of those that are defined to ignore the addend,
or RELATIVE relocs). Prelink therefore needs to convert REL back
to RELA in that case.
Jakub
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-17 17:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-16 19:22 H.J. Lu
2011-02-16 20:04 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-02-16 20:29 ` Roland McGrath
2011-02-16 20:35 ` Chris Metcalf
2011-02-16 20:39 ` Andrew Pinski
2011-02-16 20:46 ` H.J. Lu
2011-02-16 22:13 ` Chris Metcalf
2011-02-17 8:35 ` Jan Beulich
2011-02-17 12:14 ` H.J. Lu
2011-02-17 16:14 ` John Reiser
2011-02-17 17:59 ` Jakub Jelinek [this message]
2011-02-17 14:29 ` Jakub Jelinek
2011-02-17 15:22 ` Jan Hubicka
2011-02-17 15:30 ` H.J. Lu
2011-02-17 15:45 ` Jan Hubicka
2011-02-17 15:49 ` H.J. Lu
2011-02-17 16:10 ` Jan Beulich
2011-02-17 17:59 ` H.J. Lu
2011-02-18 8:10 ` Jan Beulich
2011-02-18 17:53 ` H.J. Lu
2011-02-18 20:32 ` Jan Hubicka
2011-02-21 8:04 ` Jan Beulich
2011-02-17 18:07 ` Jakub Jelinek
2011-02-17 19:56 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-02-17 22:50 ` Jan Hubicka
2011-02-17 23:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-02-17 23:07 ` Jakub Jelinek
2011-02-18 8:49 ` Jan Beulich
2011-02-17 18:14 ` Joseph S. Myers
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