* [committed] MIPS/BFD: Update outdated comment about o32 R_MIPS_PC32 reloc support
@ 2016-06-13 16:07 Maciej W. Rozycki
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From: Maciej W. Rozycki @ 2016-06-13 16:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
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commit b47468a6dbd1b54c44c2edc0f7db64a073d894ea
Author: Catherine Moore <clm@redhat.com>
Date: Mon May 6 15:25:45 2013 +0000
and the return of support for R_MIPS_PC32 there.
bfd/
* elf32-mips.c (elf_mips_gnu_pcrel32): Update comment.
---
I have committed this change.
Maciej
binutils-mips-bfd-pcrel32-comment.diff
Index: binutils/bfd/elf32-mips.c
===================================================================
--- binutils.orig/bfd/elf32-mips.c 2016-05-27 12:42:37.000000000 +0100
+++ binutils/bfd/elf32-mips.c 2016-06-09 14:04:34.857374615 +0100
@@ -1548,9 +1548,9 @@ static reloc_howto_type elf_mips_gnu_rel
TRUE); /* pcrel_offset */
/* 32 bit pc-relative. This was a GNU extension used by embedded-PIC.
- It was co-opted by mips-linux for exception-handling data. It is no
- longer used, but should continue to be supported by the linker for
- backward compatibility. (GCC stopped using it in May, 2004.) */
+ It was co-opted by mips-linux for exception-handling data. GCC stopped
+ using it in May, 2004, then started using it again for compact unwind
+ tables. */
static reloc_howto_type elf_mips_gnu_pcrel32 =
HOWTO (R_MIPS_PC32, /* type */
0, /* rightshift */
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