From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17592 invoked by alias); 28 Jan 2012 02:11:51 -0000 Received: (qmail 17584 invoked by uid 22791); 28 Jan 2012 02:11:50 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.2 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; Sat, 28 Jan 2012 02:11:38 +0000 Received: from f14-64.local ([76.105.149.67]) by bitwagon.com for ; Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:11:36 -0800 Message-ID: <4F235971.9050109@bitwagon.com> Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 02:11:00 -0000 From: John Reiser User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.24) Gecko/20111108 Fedora/3.1.16-1.fc14 Thunderbird/3.1.16 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Binutils Subject: Re: Initial MIPS patch for GOLD - version 3 References: <4F1ED098.2060508@RT-RK.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: 2012-01/txt/msg00265.txt.bz2 On 01/27/2012 05:54 PM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > Aleksandar Simeonov writes: >> - MIPS needs to have PT_NULL segment to be last in list of segments. > Why would we ever have a PT_NULL segment? It's a way to insert a "comment" into the Phdrs. Such a comment can be convenient for extensions or special cases that the usual tools did not anticipate. --