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From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>
To: Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au>
Cc: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>, ian@airs.com, binutils@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [patch] new sh relocs
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 15:21:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <or3cg139xw.fsf@free.redhat.lsd.ic.unicamp.br> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030816135520.GL27145@bubble.sa.bigpond.net.au>

On Aug 16, 2003, Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au> wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 09:38:45AM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
>> 
>> > But, but, isn't moving relocs going to break existing object files?
>> 
>> Sad but true.  At least it's only objects built with relax on.
>> Renesas noted such incompatibility in their request to us.

> You need to reject old objects then.  EI_OSABI and EI_ABIVERSION were
> designed for exactly this purpose.

Unfortunately we're the ones that got the ABI wrong, and Renesas tools
don't emit any EI_* markers we could use to tell, so we should just
take the risk and change the meaning of relocs we've been generating
with the wrong meaning.

-- 
Alexandre Oliva   Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/
Red Hat GCC Developer                 aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org}
CS PhD student at IC-Unicamp        oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}
Free Software Evangelist                Professional serial bug killer

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-08-16 15:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-15 20:51 DJ Delorie
2003-08-16  5:19 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2003-08-16 13:38   ` DJ Delorie
2003-08-16 13:55     ` Alan Modra
2003-08-16 14:04       ` DJ Delorie
2003-08-16 15:21         ` Alexandre Oliva
2003-08-16 15:21       ` Alexandre Oliva [this message]
2003-08-25 18:37         ` DJ Delorie
2003-09-06  0:07         ` DJ Delorie
2003-09-06  6:59           ` Nick Clifton
2003-09-10  7:56           ` Alexandre Oliva
2003-09-10 16:45             ` DJ Delorie
2003-09-24  2:28             ` DJ Delorie

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