From: Richard Sandiford <rdsandiford@googlemail.com>
To: John Reiser <jreiser@bitwagon.com>
Cc: Binutils <binutils@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: Initial MIPS patch for GOLD - version 3
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 12:13:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fwey906y.fsf@firetop.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F235971.9050109@bitwagon.com> (John Reiser's message of "Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:12:01 -0800")
John Reiser <jreiser@bitwagon.com> writes:
> On 01/27/2012 05:54 PM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
>> Aleksandar Simeonov <Aleksandar.Simeonov@RT-RK.com> 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.
In this case it's for the prelinker:
http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2006-10/msg00174.html
Richard
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-29 12:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-24 15:39 Aleksandar Simeonov
2012-01-28 1:06 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2012-01-28 1:48 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2012-01-28 1:55 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2012-01-28 2:11 ` John Reiser
2012-01-29 12:13 ` Richard Sandiford [this message]
2012-02-03 15:40 Simeonov, Aleksandar (c)
2012-03-07 14:26 ` Simeonov, Aleksandar (c)
2012-03-07 14:54 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2012-03-07 19:46 ` Fuhler, Rich
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