From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1577 invoked by alias); 8 Aug 2012 15:42:24 -0000 Received: (qmail 1569 invoked by uid 22791); 8 Aug 2012 15:42:23 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_RCVD_TRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-pb0-f47.google.com (HELO mail-pb0-f47.google.com) (209.85.160.47) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 08 Aug 2012 15:41:58 +0000 Received: by pbcwy7 with SMTP id wy7so1595884pbc.20 for ; Wed, 08 Aug 2012 08:41:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.68.217.226 with SMTP id pb2mr1235023pbc.105.1344440518059; Wed, 08 Aug 2012 08:41:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.30] (st0300.nas931.d-osaka.nttpc.ne.jp. [202.229.225.44]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id io1sm13596172pbc.67.2012.08.08.08.41.55 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 08 Aug 2012 08:41:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <502288B8.2090802@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2012 15:42:00 -0000 From: Fumiaki Isoya User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120713 Thunderbird/14.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ian Lance Taylor CC: gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: The Extension to ELF References: <5021FB65.2010704@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2012-08/txt/msg00084.txt.bz2 > It may interest you to know that, for an older Cygnus project (mep), > we implemented a facility called computed/complex relocations, as an > ELF extension. This is a way of encoding general symbol/arithmetic > expressions to be evaluated at link time and substituted into the > binary output. (It may be similar to the vms-alpha ETIR facility.) Did you write some compiler language to evaluate that feature? How is the idea of adopting it as the standard format of GNU Hurd? - Isoyaf