From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4034 invoked by alias); 17 Feb 2011 16:14:20 -0000 Received: (qmail 4019 invoked by uid 22791); 17 Feb 2011 16:14:18 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from bitwagon.com (HELO bitwagon.com) (74.82.39.175) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with SMTP; Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:14:13 +0000 Received: from f14-64.local ([67.171.188.169]) by bitwagon.com for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2011 08:14:09 -0800 Message-ID: <4D5D4943.2010300@bitwagon.com> Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:14:00 -0000 From: John Reiser User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101209 Fedora/3.1.7-0.35.b3pre.fc14 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: binutils@sourceware.org Subject: Re: x32 psABI draft version 0.2 References: <4D5C2DD2.10608@zytor.com> <4D5CEBDE02000078000325A2@vpn.id2.novell.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact binutils-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: binutils-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2011-02/txt/msg00221.txt.bz2 On 02/17/2011 04:14 AM, H.J. Lu wrote: > On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 12:35 AM, Jan Beulich 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? --