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charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIMWL_WL_HIGH,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,DKIM_VALID_EF,KAM_NUMSUBJECT,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3,RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_NONE,TXREP,T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on server2.sourceware.org List-Id: Hi Frédéric, > My compiler generates REL relocations with an in-place addend but the addend is not taken into account for computing the final relocated symbol address (S+A). Is there any particular reason for this ? Ie, if your compiler generated RELA relocations then all of your problems with the binutils should go away... > So it seems the that I'm the first one that generates REL relocations for AArch64 target. True. > However, I don't see any limitation on using REL relocations in the AARCH64 ABI. Correct. There are - in theory - allowed. > I would appreciate any comment/feedback that would help me understanding the reasons behind that. As a general rule RELA relocations are preferable in that they are simpler - it is easier to extract the addend - and in theory they have the possibility to express a wider range of addends than would be available to REL relocations. Have you tried modifying the AArch64 code in the BFD library to support REL relocations ? In theory all that you need to do is to change a few lines in bfd/elfnn-aarch64.c: #define elf_backend_may_use_rel_p 0 and maybe: #define elf_backend_may_use_rela_p 1 #define elf_backend_default_use_rela_p 1 #define elf_backend_rela_normal 1 In practice I am pretty sure that there will be assumptions of RELA relocs elsewhere in the AArch64 specific code, so I doubt it will be as simple as I have suggested. Cheers Nick