From: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
To: "Richard Earnshaw (lists)" <Richard.Earnshaw@arm.com>
Cc: Michael Matz <matz@suse.de>, binutils@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PR30437 aarch64: make RELA relocs idempotent
Date: Thu, 25 May 2023 08:24:14 +0930 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZG6Vlt53cFHMk0dB@squeak.grove.modra.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1ba7b2c7-b489-79af-3f2a-56450c86d955@arm.com>
On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 04:26:03PM +0100, Richard Earnshaw (lists) via Binutils wrote:
> > * elfnn-aarch64.c (elfNN_aarch64_howto_table): Clear src_mask
> > if all relocation descriptors.
> Isn't this what partial_inplace is supposed to describe?
Strictly speaking that flag describes what should be done for ld -r.
It has no effect on final link. It does also affect what is produced
by gas (which is by far the messiest and most confusing part of libbfd
relocation processing).
> Since that's
> false, I'd expect any value stored in the section contents to be ignored.
--
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM
prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-05-24 22:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-05-10 14:04 Michael Matz
2023-05-17 14:35 ` Nick Clifton
2023-05-24 15:26 ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2023-05-24 16:03 ` Michael Matz
2023-05-25 9:35 ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2023-05-25 12:29 ` Michael Matz
2023-05-25 13:22 ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2023-05-25 14:12 ` Michael Matz
2023-05-25 15:56 ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2023-05-25 16:01 ` Michael Matz
2023-05-24 22:54 ` Alan Modra [this message]
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