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From: Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: Exploring the possibility of linking objects with different relocation
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Hi Prafulla,

> Solution as per our understanding:
> We will Change the ABI number in the object file to indicate the
> relocation scheme used. 

This is the correct approach.

> Also we are exploring the possibility of linking objects with different 
> relocation schemes together. Can anybody suggest how feasible is to
> modify present linker to link objects with different relocation scheme 
 > at the same time?

This should be possible.  You may find that you cannot support the 
--emit-relocs switch since you would not be able to label the output 
file as containing both old and new ABI relocs.

Cheers
   Nick