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From: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
To: The Cuthour <cuthour@gmail.com>
Cc: binutils@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Introducing ELF2.0
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2025 12:44:42 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250129174442.GA28899@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aa06d159-8195-450e-a519-a3af02d91986@gmail.com>

Hi -

> > Some.  Each port would have to enable it individually.  See the #ifdef
> > OBJC_COMPLEX_RELC configuration in gas/symbols.c.
> 
> If the people on this list, who are struggling with 'complex
> relocation,' have an idea of what they would like ELF to become,
> I will respect that. In fact, Iwould encourage them to pursue it.

The above functionality is compatible with - embedded in - normal ELF.
How individual target architectures express relocations etc. is within
their discretion, again normal ELF.  If you think you have a
significant problem that such link-time computations are needed to
express, please share them.

- FChE


  reply	other threads:[~2025-01-29 17:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-01-27 18:26 The Cuthour
2025-01-27 20:16 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2025-01-27 20:22   ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2025-01-28  4:56   ` The Cuthour
     [not found]   ` <90e29225-b1a4-4df0-9106-898130e9da82@gmail.com>
2025-01-29  3:05     ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2025-01-29 16:25       ` The Cuthour
2025-01-29 17:44         ` Frank Ch. Eigler [this message]
2025-01-29 18:26           ` The Cuthour
2025-01-29 18:52             ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2025-01-29 19:21               ` The Cuthour
2025-01-29 19:49                 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2025-01-29 22:26                   ` The Cuthour
2025-01-29 22:54                     ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2025-01-29 23:25                       ` The Cuthour
2025-01-30  5:55                         ` The Cuthour
2025-01-30 14:28                           ` The Cuthour
2025-01-30 14:55               ` Nick Alcock
2025-01-30 15:45                 ` The Cuthour
2025-01-28  0:25 ` Oleg Endo

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